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Employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained more than 30 members of an organized group that was engaged in the theft of funds from bank cards. The special operation took place in 11 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, with 62 addresses, security guards conducted searches. Computer equipment and server equipment, more than $ 1 million, as well as weapons, drugs and gold bars were seized from scammers. According to the FSB, attackers created more than 90 online stores through which they stole stolen data. 25 members of the group, including citizens of Ukraine and Lithuania, have been charged under part 2 of article 187 "Illegal circulation of means of payment."
Representatives of the FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, thwarted the activities of an organized group of people who were engaged in the sale of stolen credit and payment card data from Russian and foreign financial institutions. Attackers illegally gained access to user accounts on the Internet, and then to their payment systems. This was reported in the FSB Public Relations Center.
“Members of the group to implement their criminal business created more than 90 online stores selling stolen data, which were subsequently used by cybercriminals to steal money from bank accounts of citizens of various countries, including through the purchase of expensive goods on the Internet,” the text says messages.
Special services conducted the operation in 11 regions: the Republics of Crimea and North Ossetia, Kaluga, Leningrad, Moscow, Pskov, Samara and Tambov regions, as well as in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol.
Searches were conducted at 62 residential addresses of members of the organized group. Law enforcement authorities seized more than $ 1 million and 3 million rubles, as well as computer equipment that was used to support the operation of online stores.
In addition, according to the FSB, “fake identity documents, including passports of citizens of the Russian Federation, official identification cards of law enforcement officers used in illegal activities, as well as firearms (rifled) weapons, drugs, gold bars and precious coins were seized ".
“As a result of the special operation, more than 30 members of the group (including citizens of Ukraine and Lithuania) were detained. 25 of them were charged under Part 2 of Art. 187 (“Illegal circulation of means of payment”) of the Criminal Code of Russia and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen, ”the special services said.
As noted in the FSB, the organizers of the criminal group have already been prosecuted for similar crimes.
Based on the results of the work of the special services, the group’s activities were discontinued, and the “server infrastructure used for criminal purposes” was liquidated.
Theft of bank card data
In 2019, a case was investigated in Russia on the leak of personal data of Sberbank users. The media reported that in early October, the base with 60 million customer credit cards appeared on the black market.
The bank conducted its own investigation and identified an intruder inside the company. Law enforcers seized all the stolen information from his database, the cards of the affected customers were re-issued.
After that, the head of Sberbank German Gref called for tougher punishment for the theft of such information.
Later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the detention of another fraudster suspected of embezzlement of personal data of Sberbank clients and other credit organizations. According to security guards, the attacker lived in Volgograd and acted under the pseudonym Anton 2131. It was also reported that the detainee was an employee of LLC “NSV” (National Recovery Service). The organization said they intend to conduct their own investigation.
At the beginning of December 2019, Sberbank reported that most often attackers obtain confidential user data by making calls allegedly from the security service of a credit institution, buyers from the free classified ads website and employees of a brokerage or dealer company. So, a fraudster may report that suspicious transactions were allegedly registered on the bank’s client’s account, and then ask for the secret code on the back of the card, personal SMS confirmation data or password from the banking application.
According to the Central Bank for Monitoring and Response to Computer Attacks in the Credit and Financial Sphere (FinCERT) Central Bank, in 21 fraudsters stole almost 6.5 billion rubles from the cards of Russian citizens. As Vitaliy Vekhov, an expert in the field of information security, noted earlier, thanks to the work of the center of Russia, it was possible to reduce the share of crimes in the cyber sphere, but it is impossible to completely prevent damage from the actions of cybercriminals.
Representatives of the FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, thwarted the activities of an organized group of people who were engaged in the sale of stolen credit and payment card data from Russian and foreign financial institutions. Attackers illegally gained access to user accounts on the Internet, and then to their payment systems. This was reported in the FSB Public Relations Center.
“Members of the group to implement their criminal business created more than 90 online stores selling stolen data, which were subsequently used by cybercriminals to steal money from bank accounts of citizens of various countries, including through the purchase of expensive goods on the Internet,” the text says messages.
Special services conducted the operation in 11 regions: the Republics of Crimea and North Ossetia, Kaluga, Leningrad, Moscow, Pskov, Samara and Tambov regions, as well as in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol.
Searches were conducted at 62 residential addresses of members of the organized group. Law enforcement authorities seized more than $ 1 million and 3 million rubles, as well as computer equipment that was used to support the operation of online stores.
In addition, according to the FSB, “fake identity documents, including passports of citizens of the Russian Federation, official identification cards of law enforcement officers used in illegal activities, as well as firearms (rifled) weapons, drugs, gold bars and precious coins were seized ".
“As a result of the special operation, more than 30 members of the group (including citizens of Ukraine and Lithuania) were detained. 25 of them were charged under Part 2 of Art. 187 (“Illegal circulation of means of payment”) of the Criminal Code of Russia and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen, ”the special services said.
As noted in the FSB, the organizers of the criminal group have already been prosecuted for similar crimes.
Based on the results of the work of the special services, the group’s activities were discontinued, and the “server infrastructure used for criminal purposes” was liquidated.
Theft of bank card data
In 2019, a case was investigated in Russia on the leak of personal data of Sberbank users. The media reported that in early October, the base with 60 million customer credit cards appeared on the black market.
The bank conducted its own investigation and identified an intruder inside the company. Law enforcers seized all the stolen information from his database, the cards of the affected customers were re-issued.
After that, the head of Sberbank German Gref called for tougher punishment for the theft of such information.
Later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported the detention of another fraudster suspected of embezzlement of personal data of Sberbank clients and other credit organizations. According to security guards, the attacker lived in Volgograd and acted under the pseudonym Anton 2131. It was also reported that the detainee was an employee of LLC “NSV” (National Recovery Service). The organization said they intend to conduct their own investigation.
At the beginning of December 2019, Sberbank reported that most often attackers obtain confidential user data by making calls allegedly from the security service of a credit institution, buyers from the free classified ads website and employees of a brokerage or dealer company. So, a fraudster may report that suspicious transactions were allegedly registered on the bank’s client’s account, and then ask for the secret code on the back of the card, personal SMS confirmation data or password from the banking application.
According to the Central Bank for Monitoring and Response to Computer Attacks in the Credit and Financial Sphere (FinCERT) Central Bank, in 21 fraudsters stole almost 6.5 billion rubles from the cards of Russian citizens. As Vitaliy Vekhov, an expert in the field of information security, noted earlier, thanks to the work of the center of Russia, it was possible to reduce the share of crimes in the cyber sphere, but it is impossible to completely prevent damage from the actions of cybercriminals.
