Hackers steal billion in the biggest breakthrough of the accounts of banks in the world process
Hackers steal billion in the biggest breakthrough of the accounts of banks in the world process
16-02-2015 03:02 PM
A group of pirates attack is unprecedented, seized a billion dollars after the penetration of financial systems for banks by pre-prepared plan.
Pirates plan is to send e-mails with Word files containing malicious software from which access to the accounts, and succeeded pirates in the theft of about 100 banks and financial institutions around the world, it is likely that this process will be the largest theft of banks has been so far.
The majority of the banks that have been targeted in Russia, but that the attack also targeted financial institutions in Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States.
has indicated Company ‘Kaspersky Lab’ specialized in computer security, that the president is headquartered in Moscow, that there are 30 countries and 100 bank may have been subjected to this attack which resulted in confirming an estimated $ 300 million in losses, required patience long hackers who planted a spy files remote control since 2013 to do this process, noting the possibility of continuing the process so far.
called the pirates ‘Carbanak cybergang’ name relative to the program that was used name.
The expert said the company ‘Kaspersky Lab’, Sergei Oshchin, in a press statement, I followed (News): The total damage could reach $ 1 billion, may be each institution have been targeted have lost in this attack an estimated $ 10 million ‘.
It has been used perpetrators different ways to enter the banking systems, including e-mails and fake of real financial institutions, including the central bank, with annexes thereto Files ‘Microsoft Word’.
He explained to Oshchin ‘if the Bank employee victim who receives phantom message old programs is updated on its computer system, this allows malicious software in the message penetrate the PC easily ‘.
After that, the pirates uses a number of sophisticated means, allow them to learn how the employee with the internal software of the bank, and then move from a computer to another, and ultimately are penetrating the entire bank system. works
and continued to Oshchin ‘then they who transfer bank funds remotely to an ATM, where he is expected on these machines some of their associates, who were taking money that comes out of the machine at a certain moment they agree upon. ”
There has been an error in the implementation of the scheme in the Ukraine, no one is going to pick up the money that appeared Suddenly (automatic way) from one ATM, and that was the reason for that was because of that call the company ‘Kaspersky Lab’ to look at this issue, and this is a small key, which led to the entire scheme was discovered.
This has not been detected on the affected banks names to Oshchin believe that banks bear much of the blame for what happened, and he said: ‘When it comes to infrastructure cyber banks, unfortunately not all banks are keen enough to modernize the use of programs for their employees, sometimes they forget it or believe it is not important to him, and so can malware use this weakness to penetrate the entire bank system ‘.
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