Six Russian Banks Lose US$25.7m To Hacker Collective
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Six Russian Banks Lose US$25.7m To Hacker Collective

THELOGICALINDIAN - According to Russian account sources over US257m has been baseborn from Russian banks This has annihilation to do with yet addition Swift arrangement aperture admitting A hacker aggregate is complex in the conception and administration of malware acclimated to abduct money from Russian coffer accounts

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Earlier today, Russian law administration admiral accept arrested fourteen bodies of an bearding hacker Bitcoinist_Hacker Collective Russian Federal Security Servicecollective. All of these bodies are doubtable of actuality complex in the acceptance of malware to abduct funds from Russia coffer accounts. Preliminary after-effects announce added than US$25.7m has been taken. The Russian Federal Security Service has additionally confiscated a lot of computer equipment, accumulated with banking documents, coffer cards, and banknote sums.

 

A absolute of six banks has been afflicted by this hacker collective, including the Russian International Bank, Metropol, and Metallinvestbank.The attacks took abode amid March and April of 2016, although no specific dates were announced. All of these banks suffered from alien admission attacks, which were fabricated accessible due to the administration of malware.

Kaspersky Labs has adumbrated the hacker aggregate fabricated use of the Lurk cyberbanking trojan. Doing so accustomed the assailants to abduct funds from coffer accounts in both Russia and added countries. Lurk has been a able apparatus in the easily of the amiss people, as it has been acclimated for over bristles years by hackers attractive to douse funds to adopted accounts.

It is not the aboriginal time these types of attacks booty abode in Russia, though. Damages acquired by hackers and internet abyss accept exceeded US$45m over the accomplished year. Especially the cardinal of attacks adjoin banking institutions seems to be accretion exponentially. Since mid-2024, law administration has tracked 18 altered incidents, consistent in over 3 billion rubles actuality stolen.

At the aforementioned time, several attacks accept been prevented from causing alike added damage. If that had not been the case, there would accept been an added US$30 actor in damages, according to TASS. After absolute investigations, over 50 hackers accept been arrested, and added than 80 searches accept been conducted so far.

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Source: TASS

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