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300 million stolen from banks
  • Should we just put all our money in Spam? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/bank-hackers-steal-millions-via-malware.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

    PALO ALTO, Calif. — In late 2013, an A.T.M. in Kiev started dispensing cash at seemingly random times of day. No one had put in a card or touched a button. Cameras showed that the piles of money had been swept up by customers who appeared lucky to be there at the right moment. But when a Russian cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, was called to Ukraine to investigate, it discovered that the errant machine was the least of the bank’s problems. The bank’s internal computers, used by employees who process daily transfers and conduct bookkeeping, had been penetrated by malware that allowed cybercriminals to record their every move. The malicious software lurked for months, sending back video feeds and images that told a criminal group — including Russians, Chinese and Europeans — how the bank conducted its daily routines, according to the investigators. Then the group impersonated bank officers, not only turning on various cash machines, but also transferring millions of dollars from banks in Russia, Japan, Switzerland, the United States and the Netherlands into dummy accounts set up in other countries. click link to Continue reading the main story

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  • Well, take into account that it is mostly fake report, among huge pile made by Kaspersky Lab.

    Sounds interesting, dangerous. Their style.

  • That's actually funny. Even if it's fabricated, there's still the issue of cyber security to worry about.

  • Even if it's fabricated, there's still the issue of cyber security to worry about.

    For example, I think that issue with rapes, thiefs and such are much more important, yet if you will publish in leading media false story about some imaginative group of thiefs and rapists and will tell that they did 100 various crimes (we just do not know exactly where and that kind, as we only know one girl who told that her guy is certainly criminal from this group as fucks her so hard) - you will end in jail. For cybersecurity - you are good.

  • Why would normal people worry about this. They steal...they print more. None of it is real. The only ones who should be worried are banksters in the middle who know too much. They're getting suicided left and right.

  • The real issue about "cybersecurity" is that (almost) nobody really wants it. Companies - especially large corporate groups - want "compliance" to some "policies" realized with the least possible effort, just so they can claim to "have done something" and are not liable of any damages caused by cybercrime. If you hint executives towards real, existing security threats, and what could be done to actually technically prevent them, they don't want to know. Because security measures cost money and hurt profits immediately, while security breaches hurt profits only with a certain probability. I have personally witnessed the reaction of a CEO who was told about a security issue: He (literally, not metaphorically) reacted a like child, sticking fingers in his ears and sang "la la la - I don't hear you and I don't want to know!".

    And most people in private are way too lazy to sustain even a minimum level of security measures - they put the proverbial "key under the door mat" - even though unlike their physical home, their computers can be visited by anyone from anywhere in the world in a matter of milliseconds.

    IMHO, it's a lost cause. We'll see billions skimmed by criminals over the next years, and significant damage to all kinds of InterNet-connected hardware. The pain resulting from these incidents will tragically have to reach a much higher, critical level before we will see actual technical countermeasures, not just "policies" and "threats of punishment" being implemented.

    And the legal situation in many countries today reflects the total debility on the topic: Those who find security leaks are prosecuted, even if they didn't steal a dime. At the same time, government officials pay for "zero day exploits" for use in their surveillance and espionage programs. So there's zero incentive to do what would be morally good and for the benefit of society as a whole, and there's plenty of incentive to sell knowledge of securitly leaks on the black market.

  • http://news.antiwar.com/2015/02/16/advanced-cybercrime-gang-equation-closely-linked-to-nsa/

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/bank-hackers-steal-millions-via-malware.html?_r=0

    Now you get it ?? Same deal. It's the nsa ! Not only is the US gov the biggest war criminal in the world....it's the biggest criminal as well !