Hackers Breach Russian Bank and Steal $1 Million Due To Outdated Router (bleepingcomputer.com) 24
Catalin Cimpanu, reporting for BleepingComputer: A notorious hacker group known as MoneyTaker has stolen roughly $1 million from a Russian bank after breaching its network via an outdated router. The victim of the hack is PIR Bank, which lost at least $920,000 in money it had stored in a corresponding account at the Bank of Russia. Group-IB, a Russian cyber-security firm that was called in to investigate the incident, says that after studying infected workstations and servers at PIR Bank, they collected "irrefutable digital evidence implicating MoneyTaker in the theft." Group-IB are experts in MoneyTaker tactics because they unmasked the group's existence and operations last December when they published a report on their past attacks.
If hackers and bank ... (Score:2)
... owed $1 million that was due, or past due, to the router then maybe this was a "guilt hack." or stuff.
someone's about to get poisoned (Score:2)
i see some novochick with someone's name on it
Sounds like the Onion! (Score:3, Funny)
They get hacked all the time. Not just recently (Score:3)
Banks, or banking systems, get hacked fairly regularly. This isn't a new development. You might be seeing more of it in the popular press recently because the popular press has trends.
How do you steal which does not exist (Score:1)
I don't understand what is stolen here. There is no physical money, it's just a value stored in memory + replicated on some disks. What's stopping someone from just restoring it to its original value? If there are transactions that leave a concrete trace, why not roll them back?
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Depends on the time. You can't really roll back trades that occurred a month ago.
What happens is you have a banking network. You trust the people you deal with directly, but some of them trust people you don't entirely trust, and the 3rd party trusts even more people.
So lets say Bank A wants to rollback 1 million dollars that went to Bank B. Bank B will definitely agree, as long as the money is still there.
But after a day, the criminal has moved some/all to Bank C. Bank A can probably convince C to
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