The intelligence services uncovered a group of cybercriminals who defrauded Promsvyazbank, Trust, Uralsib and the credit institution Zenit.
16 people in Moscow organized a cybercriminal group and engaged in online fraud. The group started working with an amount of one million rubles, gradually increasing the amount. In just four months, the team robbed financial institutions of a billion rubles. The scam was a success thanks to a special program they created.
“A group of Internet fraudsters with knowledge in programming and technology developed a bot that, at a certain point in time, after transactions were carried out from one account to another, canceled transactions,” said a law enforcement source. “However, by this time the funds had already been sent according to the payment order via Internet banking, and the team arrived at the bank late. Mostly transfers were from dollar to ruble accounts, or from dollar to euro.”
The scammers acted according to the following scheme: they created bank cards in other people’s names, went to the terminal, topped up the account, going to another terminal, withdrew a small amount and took a receipt, after which, having received a receipt from the ATM with authorization data for a legal ATM card transaction for withdrawing funds, used her details via the ITS Internet and generated a false electronic order in the form of a reverse transaction to cancel the withdrawal operation. As a result of such actions, the balance of the bank card account was restored and replenished by the specified amount. Thus, a gang of hacker-programmers was able to cause damage to four banks in the amount of over one billion rubles.
The security service of one of the financial institutions sounded the alarm, after which they contacted the “K” department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. After an investigation, the group members were identified and detained. In addition to the “carders,” the group had its own driver and cashers.
16 people in Moscow organized a cybercriminal group and engaged in online fraud. The group started working with an amount of one million rubles, gradually increasing the amount. In just four months, the team robbed financial institutions of a billion rubles. The scam was a success thanks to a special program they created.
“A group of Internet fraudsters with knowledge in programming and technology developed a bot that, at a certain point in time, after transactions were carried out from one account to another, canceled transactions,” said a law enforcement source. “However, by this time the funds had already been sent according to the payment order via Internet banking, and the team arrived at the bank late. Mostly transfers were from dollar to ruble accounts, or from dollar to euro.”
The scammers acted according to the following scheme: they created bank cards in other people’s names, went to the terminal, topped up the account, going to another terminal, withdrew a small amount and took a receipt, after which, having received a receipt from the ATM with authorization data for a legal ATM card transaction for withdrawing funds, used her details via the ITS Internet and generated a false electronic order in the form of a reverse transaction to cancel the withdrawal operation. As a result of such actions, the balance of the bank card account was restored and replenished by the specified amount. Thus, a gang of hacker-programmers was able to cause damage to four banks in the amount of over one billion rubles.
The security service of one of the financial institutions sounded the alarm, after which they contacted the “K” department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. After an investigation, the group members were identified and detained. In addition to the “carders,” the group had its own driver and cashers.
