Two Russian Hackers Stole $500K On The Internet
Posted on September 24, 2008
This summer, two Russian hackers were able to steal 500,000 dollars on the internet from Turkish bank accounts, according to the investigators from Russia\'s Internal Affairs.
Two young men bought a server that could be accessed remotely from a computer hosted data center in the United States. They also bought a special application that was able to infect computers from Turkey\'s bank account systems. The banks computers were infected by a Trojan that gave the villains an accessing point that would try and steal information about customer\'s bank accounts, such as names, addresses, account numbers, pin numbers, and telephone numbers.
The virus would make a list of all information and send it back to its owners. Then, the two men simply had to access the internet addresses of the respective bank and log into various accounts to withdraw money that were to be placed in a number of different bank accounts, trying to leave no personal marks on the entire operation.
I find it astonishing that anyone can buy programs and servers set to destroy a banks security system. But with the malicious software progress registered recently nothing should come as a surprise anymore.
The case of the Russian hacks isn\'t an isolated case. There are hundreds of smaller cases that police have to deal with every day, as more and more young men and teenagers spend countless hours in front of their computers, they will manage to crack various security codes and hack into banks personal systems. The authorities are trying hard to fight this sort of internet crime, but sometimes they can only catch the end-users of the malicious programs and not the programmers themselves, who may have not cracked any bank accounts but nevertheless provided the means for others to do it.
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