Stroker Trail
Russian Mafia related to piracy of Cape Town has the United States in the area Сode
Hackers breached the bank accounts local authorities in November 2008 and 34 000 dollars redirected taxpayer money to Russia on a computer hacking scheme developed.
The scheme piracy involving computers local authorities to steal passwords to withdraw money through electronic transfers, there were four transfers Found illegal for a period of 10 days.
The money was wired to banks in Florida and Georgia in the United States and at least one transfer be traced to St. Petersburg, Russia. That has convinced law enforcement to Russian organized crime is involved.
Hackers using a virus known as "tracker "To engage the password and security information computer system, what type of virus is also known as a keylogger times.
Piracy was first discovered on 14 November by the city treasurer when he discovered the false transfer when he went to pay the bills of local authorities t 'Week and Do not have enough money. Bank officials told him that he had authorized the transfer, which led him to call police immediately.
Local authorities quickly get your network and were able to follow the money trail to Florida.
Authorities believe initial equipment violation that occurred on November 4, 2008. "If this had been for months, you can imagine how much money would be involved ". A small amount of money from one of the transfers was still in a bank account in Florida.
A man who tried to withdraw these funds was questioned by police who found he was employed by what he thought was a legitimate business. That man, responding to a newspaper ad, opened a bank account and always your employer with access to this account information. His job was to move money between payment accounts. The Florida man has been charged.
On the stealing $ 34,000 bank account local authorities is part of the growing economy focused on cybercrime. It 's mass 'S growing and ' s international. "There are cyber criminals and cyber victims in many different countries.
Hackers stolen password and security of the bank account information local authorities and made four illegal wire transfers.
World Bank officials the city said the wire transfers were made with the s treasurer name password. Investigators believe the hackers breached the local teams use of a virus that recorded keystrokes.
Cybercrime is booming in places like Eastern Europe and Russia, where people with new skills and limited employment opportunities. That 's the combination that adds to problems. We see the threat comes from all over the world. There are complex networks that include people Don 't even know, each working in different countries. You can have a lot of moving parts, isolate the brain.
It 's difficult to quantify the magnitude of the problem of cyber crime beyond the call "massive. Symantec published a report indicating a flourishing economy. Cyber thieves are finding new ways to thwart security to steal credit card information and bank account. Knowing that more people are aware that should open t 'attachments, cybercriminals attempt to lure victims to Web sites through links embedded in emails.
If local authorities computer systems can be breached and, as an individual you 'I have keep that in mind. You might think, you are in charge of a small community and that they 're not going to come later. They are only interested in a big city, but there is nothing too small s "for them. If they can get something out of it, they will.
Symantec study 's one-year found that the aggregate value of the stolen information, most of which are credit cards and bank accounts, was more than $ 276 million. And the company says it's only a fraction of the economy.
If all the stolen credit cards and bank accounts were liquidated, the number could exceed $ 7 billion.
The measures the authorities and companies and individuals can take to prevent hackers from getting into your accounts banking are among the following;
Ensure that security patches, antivirus and anti-spyware software are updated
Make sure you have A firewall is configured correctly
Never open a suspicious email
Take special care when opening files ending in ". Exe "
Protect your passwords
Encrypting the hard drive of your laptop to protect the contents in case of loss or theft
If you are using a wireless connection, change the default network name (SSID) and password, and avoid connecting to public Wi-Fi locations
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He has a background as civil engineer and geoscientist. He has worked mainly within the oil and gas industry from the mid 1980s. He has written a few fictional novels as well as being the author of some professional litterature within oil and gas sector, he is now an editor of some web sites.
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