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Cyber bank heist tied to Russian authorities IP address
In February, an organized cyber crime ring that had spent a couple of years infiltrating banks, tracking worker conduct impersonating bank officers was uncovered by security company Kaspersky Lab.
The unified strike, which is continuing, was dubbed “Carbanak.”
Some analysts called the scheme one of the very first authentic “cyber mafia” rings, an assault of unprecedented sophistication and breadth.
“I still have no idea why it occurred; I do not actually believe that FSB Russia would level the Carbanak-associated domain name to an IP address that is affiliated with Russian Federal Security Service,” said Trend Micro Senior Risk Research Worker Maxim Goncharov.
“It is, in addition, possible that whoever owns the domain name had done this as a prank,” he added.
Complicating the issue further is that Russian banks have been one of the primary objectives of Carbanak.
While Russian hackers are widely supposed to be a big portion of arranging Carbanak, there’s been no important signs that the effort was being directed by Russian officials.
Moscow has been imagined in hacks that infiltrated the White House as well as the State Department last autumn.
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