Using malware, Russian hackers steal more than $1 Billion in what’s being described as the biggest bank heist in human history.

Our socialist/communist good friend Wordslinger and his comrades are celebrating the theft of a BILLION DOLLARS from banks around the world by their messiah Vladimir Putin.


Hackers steal £650 million in world's biggest bank raid

By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

4:09PM GMT 15 Feb 2015

Investigators uncover what is thought to be the biggest ever cybercrime with more than £650 million going missing from banks around the world.

British banks are thought to have lost tens of millions of pounds after a gang of Russian based hackers spent the last two years orchestrating the largest cybercrime ever uncovered.

As much as £650 million is thought to have gone missing after the gang used computer viruses to infect networks in more than 100 financial institutions worldwide.

The hackers managed to infiltrate the bank’s internal computer systems using malware, which lurked in the networks for months, gathering information and feeding it back to the gang.

The illegal software was so sophisticated that it allowed the criminals to view video feeds from within supposedly secure offices as they gathered the data they needed to steal.

Once they were ready to strike they were able to impersonate bank staff online in order to transfer millions of pounds into dummy accounts.

They were even able to instruct cash machines to dispense money at random times of the day even without a bank card.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11414191/Hackers-steal-650-million-in-worlds-biggest-bank-raid.html

I don't believe this story.

Floridatexan wrote:
I don't believe this story.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/15/hackers-steal-billion-in-banking-breach/23464913/

Nowhere does the article state that the hackers are Russian.

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Criminal hackers suspected of stealing up to $1 billion from banks

Published: Feb 16, 2015 5:38 a.m. ET

Russian-speaking gang at center, new report says

A Russian-speaking gang of computer criminals has stolen millions of dollars since late 2013 from banks in Russia, Eastern Europe and the U.S., according to a report from Kaspersky Lab ZAO, a Russian computer-security firm.

It is unclear exactly how many, or which, banks were hit. Some U.S. financial-services executives have been briefed on the findings, people familiar with the briefings said. U.S. government officials were aware of the report Sunday, though some said they were skeptical about how much money may have been lost at U.S. banks. Kaspersky earlier briefed a computer-security trade group for U.S. banks, which didn’t immediately raise its “threat level,” a person familiar with the matter said.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/computer-criminals-stole-millions-from-banks-new-report-says-2015-02-15