15 of February. An international group of hackers stole more than a billion dollars from Bank accounts around the world.
This is the results carried out jointly with the Interpol investigation, reported the press service of "Kaspersky Lab". On the eve of the newspaper The New York Times has information about the damage done by cybercriminals for two years. Damage is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the message the press service of "Kaspersky Lab" says that "experts believe that all these high profile crimes is the international criminal gang of cyber criminals from Russia, Ukraine and other European countries and from China".
Criminal gang of cyber criminals was given the name Carbanak. The money the crooks stole not just users, but directly from the banks.
According to "Kaspersky Lab" from the actions of criminals suffered banks around the world, including the USA, Russia, China, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Canada, Ukraine, great Britain, Switzerland, Norway and Spain.
The largest amounts were stolen during the invasion of banking network. For each such attack, the cyber criminals stole up to $10 million For the robbery of one Bank, on average, the crooks spend about 2 to 4 months (the time from infection of the first computer network, to direct theft of money).
"At first, crooks got into the computer of one of employees of the Bank, has infected his computer with malware, getting, thereby, access to the internal network of the Bank. Then the criminals are the computers of system administrators cash transactions. Then unfolded the surveillance screens of their monitors," - said the press service of "Kaspersky Lab".
Antivirus experts strongly recommend that all financial organisations to scan their networks for the presence of Carbanak malware. In the event of a discovery address in law enforcement bodies.
