Extensive Russian internetbende rolled up

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The Russian security service and the ministry of internal affairs in the country have eight people arrested in large-scale guilty would have to online-bankfraude. The gang allegedly also active in the Netherlands.

The gang would especially in the second half of 2010 in the Netherlands have surgery. It is striking that the Dutch Association of Banks, at the time, a huge increase of the losses due to fraud with internet banking reported. According to security firm Fox-IT, that in the investigation of the criminals involved, it is plausible that there is a correlation between the activities of the Russians and the rise. After 2010 would be the gang of the Netherlands, again on the left have let it lie.

Customers of more than one hundred banks worldwide were victim and the gang knew for millions of euros to defraud. Only in the first quarter of 2012, they knew in their homeland Russia, three million euro of loot. The Russians broke in with news sites and internet commerce to their Carberp – and Rdpdor-malware to spread. Via the malware they had access to infected pcs, and then they have data for online banking managed to intercept. Below sluisden them large amounts of money to specially mounted accounts. The gang would even have an office opened, and thus occurred as a company for data recovery.

In addition to the plundering of bank accounts would the gang members have been found guilty of setting up botnets and committing ddos-attacks. According to Fox-IT and Russian security company Group-IB is the first time that the entire criminal chain of such an organization internationally is rolled up.