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Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:10:25 GMT
Via The Guardian. [snip] Russian thieves have stolen more than 1m (£680,000) from personal bank accounts in France using "sleeper bugs" to infect computers. French authorities claim the thieves can take control of and empty a bank account in seconds. In one hit, a bank customer lost 40,000. Police say the virus is embedded in emails or websites and remains dormant until the user contacts their bank online. When that happens, the bug becomes active and records passwords and bank codes which are then forwarded to the thieves. They then use the information to check the victim has money in the bank before transferring funds to the accounts of third parties, known as mules, who may have agreed to allow money to pass through their accounts in return for a commission of between 5% and 10%. Police claim this is set up through fictitious companies, including one American firm named World Transfer, although the mules could be unaware that their computers are being used for theft. A dozen Russian thieves, described by police as being typically aged between 20 and 30, and several Ukrainian masterminds of the scam have been arrested in Moscow and St Petersburg. [snip] http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1703778,00.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Fergie (Feb 07)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Dude VanWinkle (Feb 08)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Drsolly (Feb 08)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Stephen J. Smoogen (Feb 08)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Drsolly (Feb 08)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Gadi Evron (Feb 08)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 08)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Drsolly (Feb 08)
- Re: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Dude VanWinkle (Feb 08)
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- RE: Russian Trojans Used to Steal 1M in France Todd Towles (Feb 08)