Bank-heist malware's servers phone home to Russian spookhaus Trend Micro researcher Maxim Goncharov says one of the world's most sophisticated and dangerous bank-robbing trojans is now pointing to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). Goncharov says the Carbanak trojan's command and control servers now point to the FSB in what could be a joke or gaffe by malware authors. Carbanak in …
in Putin's Russia, they send thugs to your offices (hospitalizing anyone who protests) and when your lawyer links the subsequent corporate looting to friends of the big man, that lawyer is arrested, murdered in prison, and then, in a macabre touch that Gogol would have been proud of, posthumously put on trial and convicted. his name was Sergei Magnitsky.
Goncharov says one of the world's most sophisticated and dangerous bank-robbing trojans is now pointing to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). Goncharov says the Carbanak trojan's command and control servers now point to the FSB in what could be a joke or gaffe by malware authors.
It might be intentional to throw off anyone chasing them? Once you've made your haul and are now working on the getaway to exotic places, toss a bone down a false trail to confuse the bloodhounds.
That's what you get for allowing 10 grand a day to be withdrawn... (assuming $7.3 MEELION over 2 years that is).
If only they'd stuck with the standard 250 a day limit. Would have taken 80 years at that rate.
Banks still wouldn't have spotted it though...
Seriously, who doesn't notice that kind of ATM withdrawal rate over 2 years? Is the accounting team high?
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