According to reports, a “cybercrime outfit stealing from as many as 10 banks in Russia, Armenia and Malaysia has borrowed heavily from one of the kingpins in this realm, Carbanak, which is alleged to have stolen possibly as much as $1 billion worldwide from financial organizations.”
Researchers at Kaspersky labs, who today published a report about the criminals’ activities which bare a sharp resemblance to Carbanak, have dubbed the new group “Silence”.
The researchers called the group’s attacks “targeted,” using spear phishing and a number of different means to maintain persistence on a bank’s internal network including but not limited to monitoring employee and system activities, and eventually stealing money.
Additionally, Sergey Lozhkin of Kaspersky labs stated, “We have seen this trend growing recently, as more and more slick and professional APT-style cyber-robberies emerge and succeed . . . The most worrying thing here is that due to their in-the-shadow approach, these attacks may succeed regardless of the peculiarities of each bank’s security architecture.”
Sources:
https://threatpost.com/silence-gang-borrows-from-carbanak-to-steal-from-banks/128718/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/carbanak-hacking-group-steal-1-billion-from-banks-worldwide/
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