A report of Kaspersky Lab, an IT company specializing in IT security products, which offers anti-spam and in particular antivirus, reports that since 2013 about a billion dollars following cyber attacks against around 100 banks and financial institutions.
The estimate is contained in an investigation by Kaspersky Lab, done in collaboration with Interpol and Europol, explains that the attacks were carried out by a gang of hackers with members from Russia, Ukraine and China. The criminal group has carried out cyber attacks in as many as 30 countries, including financial firms in Russia, the United States, Germany, China, Ukraine and Canada.
Unlike the well-known scams that affect the end user in possession of an online bank account, in these cases, however, we are dealing with computer hackers who directly violated the corporate networks of the banks through malware and in particular through the use of a called device RAT (Remote Access Tool) which records everything that is done on a pc. Through the RAT, hackers took pictures and video footage documenting in detail every single move made by the employees whose computers had been hacked.
At this point, hackers were able to replace employees by operating directly on the corporate networks of banks. The scam system was so precise and refined that cybercriminals managed to regularly make money transfers from banks directly into the personal accounts of some hackers. In other circumstances the scam was so proven that it was able to make automatic withdrawals of money on a pre-established day by temporarily inflating a current account and withdrawing the sum of money directly from the ATM.
