It may be one of the biggest bank robberies to date. Hackers managed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from more than 100 banks in 30 countries. According to her upcoming report Kaspersky Lab, the event could be "the most sophisticated attack the world has seen to date."
Kaspersky Lab's analysis, which will be published on Monday, is published in part by the New York Times. The cyber security company was asked to investigate a cash theft from ATMs in Ukraine a year ago. But according to The Times, ATMs were just the beginning:
“In her internal computers bankς, που χρησιμοποιούνται από τους υπαλλήλους της, οι οποίοι επεξεργάζονται στις ημερήσιες μεταφορές, είχαν εγκαταστήσει κακόβουλο λογισμικό που επέτρεψε στους κυβερνοεγκληματίες να καταγράφουν κάθε τους κίνηση. Το κακόβουλο λογισμικό που παραμόνευε για μήνες, στέλνοντας πίσω τροφοδοσίες με βίντεο και pictures who were giving information to the criminal group – about how the Bank was operating,” according to investigators.
Once they had the necessary information, the hackers were able to imitate the Bank's employees, transferring money freely from US, Russian, Japanese and Swiss banks (among others) to various international accounts. According to the report, the scale of the attack could make it "one of the largest bank robberies ever committed."
And while cyber criminals have been able to collect at least 300.000.000 dollars globally, Kaspersky Lab believes the total could be almost three times larger than that.
So far, no names of the affected banks have been released, but the majority of them are apparently from Russia, Japan and the US. security probably the hack is still in development.
And according to Kaspersky's report, it all started in the same way that every major hack breaks into an e-mail.
