Saturday 7 December 2013

1.5 Million euro stolen & 13 people detained in the Russian Blackhole exploit kit case

Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Investigation Department initiated a criminal case on the Cc Article 1.2. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the creation of and participation in a criminal association (criminal organization) to jointly committing one or more serious or particularly serious crimes).
According to the investigation in 2011 on the territory of the Russian Federation the criminal community, which specialized in massive embezzlement of funds from the accounts of individuals and legal entities are open in various lending institutions by Internet dissemination of malicious software ("banking Trojans"), followed by unauthorized access to legally protected computer information (logins, passwords, electronic keys, certificates).
Said malicious software was loaded on a computer victims through software vulnerabilities found through the ligament-sployty «Blackhole».
Then the information about the infected computer victims directed at a specially created command and control servers, combined in a computer network that ran partners with a view to subsequent remote access and copy information. Having captured the information mentioned above, members of the criminal community was formed and sent to lenders fraudulent payment orders on behalf of holders of bank accounts, in which as recipients of funds specify details of individuals and entities controlled by members of the criminal community.
Found that the activities of a criminal community members affected customers of Russian banks located throughout yy Moscow, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Krasnodar, Petrozavodsk and Kursk region.
Police arrested and prosecuted 13 people suspected of involvement in the creation and in this interregional criminal community. Among those detained and prosecuted creator said ligament-sployty.
The total damage from the actions of suspects amounted to about 70 million rubles.
With respect to the founders and members of the criminal community remand.

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