Fraud Ring In Hacking Attack On 60 Banks

[dipsydoodle]

Sixty million euro has been stolen from bank accounts in a massive cyber bank raid after fraudsters raided dozens of financial institutions around the world.

According to a joint report by software security firm McAfee and Guardian Analytics, more than 60 firms have suffered from what it has called an "insider level of understanding".

"The fraudsters' objective in these attacks is to siphon large amounts from high balance accounts, hence the name chosen for this research - Operation High Roller," the report said.

"If all of the attempted fraud campaigns were as successful as the Netherlands example we describe in this report, the total attempted fraud could be as high as 2bn (£1.6bn)."

Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/952931/fraud-ring-in-hacking-attack-on-60-banks

[truedelphi]

1. Thank you for providing a real link

With a real story behind it. I wish people would quit using Twitter feeds, which often won't even have the story up six minutes down the rosad.)

And this money came from high rolling CUSTOMERS. I was sort of hoping to find out that al la "Sneakers" (the movie,) some hacking activists got into the banks themselves and re-allocated the monies.

That would be so nice.

[maddezmom]

2. and then there is this: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/international-fbi-cyber-sting-nabs-37-operati

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/international-fbi-cyber-sting-nabs-37-operation-card/story?id=16653993

connected?

[dipsydoodle]

3. I don't think there is a connection

with your post. There would be no real need to whiz stuff between numerous servers at lightening speed switching constantly between different continents.