Holders of cards issued by Sberbank with Android devices become victims of hackers. The scammers responsible for the organization of virus attacks on smartphones and tablets with the operating system Google.
Employees of UMVD of Russia across the Tomsk region, together with the security service of Sberbank detained a group of hackers, which involved embezzlement of funds from credit cards, according to RBC. The hackers responsible for the organisation of virus attacks on Android devices.
According to Sberbank, the structure of the criminal group consisted of 7 people in the Tomsk oblast. According to AMIA, the application that was used by the scammers, once installed on the mobile device requested the balance is tied to the Bank card number, hide incoming notifications and carried out transfers of funds to attacker-controlled account.
During the arrest the crooks, which intensified in February 2015, were seized computers, 25 mobile phones, more than 150 SIM cards and a large number of Bank cards. Ministry of internal Affairs of the Tomsk region have previously estimated the damage from actions of swindlers to 5 million rubles.
In the investigation of the fraudulent scheme was attended by the Deputy head of the Department of investigations of information security incidents Group-IB Sergei Lupain. He said that a group of hackers managed to steal a large amount of money in the beginning to develop a scheme for withdrawal of funds. According to Lupinine, the scheme was structured in such a way that victims of hackers could become residents of any Russian region.
Lupain also noted that the scheme of withdrawal of funds from Bank cards with smartphones on the Android platform is quite common, and the number of crimes with its use is growing. According to him, the smartphones based on this operating system are more prone to hacker attacks than mobile devices on the iOS platform.
Recently the Russians have increasingly become the victims of card fraud. According to the Central Bank, in 2014, with cards of Russians were unlawfully transferred to 1.58 bn Average amount of write-off amounted to about 5700 rubles.
