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Russian Hackers Stole Millions From Banks, ATMs

An anonymous reader writes Tens of millions of dollars, credit cards and intellectual property was stolen by a new group of cyber criminals. Group-IB and Fox-IT, in a joint research effort, have released a report about the Anunak hackers group (PDF). This group has been involved in targeted attacks and espionage since 2013. Anunak targets banks and payment systems in Russia and CIS countries. In Europe, the U.S., and Latin America, criminals were mainly focusing on retail networks as well as mass media resources. Anunak is unique in that it aims to target banks and e-payment systems. The goal is to get into bank networks and gain access to secured payment systems. As a result, the money is stolen not from the customers, but from the bank itself. If they manage to infect governmental networks, they use the infrastructure for espionage.

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  1. Merry Christmas from The Golden Girls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank you for being a friend
    Traveled down the road and back again
    Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.

    And if you threw a party
    Invited everyone you knew
    You would see the biggest gift would be from me
    And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.

    1. Re:Merry Christmas from The Golden Girls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Go drink some Drano, you useless pathetic piece of subhuman waste.

  2. Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    All over the world, Blacks come last in intelligence tests and generally live in crime-infested ghettos. Systematic racism may contribute to some of it, but when will be open our eyes that they aren't fully human?

    1. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      All over the world, Blacks come last in intelligence tests and generally live in crime-infested ghettos. Systematic racism may contribute to some of it, but when will be open our eyes that they aren't fully human?

      Of course few people have the moral courage to think for themselves on subjects like this,
      and the common response of the educated idiot will be to mod your post down.

      More to the point, blacks are fully human but there is no question they are different from other
      races. They tend to have amazing abilities in athletics, but at the same time many of them
      can be observed to have an alarming propensity for violent behavior which is inappropriate
      relative to the situation. It is difficult to distinguish between environmental factors and societal
      influences, but when you have a wealthy successful man like Bill Cosby who is now known to
      have drugged and raped scores of women, it does make you wonder what sort of differences
      could be found at the genetic level. I mean, niggers are savages, that's obvious to anyone who
      has some real life experience ( in other words, most of the fuckwits who spend time on Slashdot
      do not qualify ).

      The US would be a more enjoyable place without the burden of the existence of blacks. Most of
      them are useless worthless lazy pieces of shit. You should hear some of the mechanics I know
      talk about blacks. These mechanics are all illegal aliens in the US without permission or papers,
      but they ALL work hard and are happy that someone gave them a job. Virtually all these guys
      speak of blacks in a manner which is more derisive than you'd typically hear from the most
      virulent white redneck racist. You see, these guys from Mexico and central America know
      how things really are and their minds have not been poisoned by government lies or NAACP lies.

      The bottom line is, there are certain realities in the world and no amount of government bullshit
      is going to erase those realities. Blacks are different in ways other than just skin pigment, and
      only a clueless naive fool would deny this. The question is, how much longer are the 87% of
      non-black people in the US going to allow the 13% of the population which IS black to drag
      the country down ?

    2. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You make some good points. It's insane to think dogs can be bred to retrieve ducks, herd sheep, and track prey, yet humans are all the same (aside from the first mm of skin depth). Compare the prison populations in anyfirst world country and it's obvious blacks are prone to being criminals.

      Slashdot: where Scientific Data is great, unless it disagrees with my PC notions.

    3. Re:Races are different by amiga3D · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      But is it because they're black or because they're mostly poor, uneducated and hopeless? Blacks from stable middle class homes seem to do about as well as their white counterparts. Is it any surprise that some black kid from the ghetto with no father and an addicted uncaring mother turns to a life of crime?

    4. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      What exactly is Fire? Personally I don't know why a flame is hot, but it doesn't matter - if I put my hand in it I will be hurt.

      Likewise, when I see a Black, I know it is far more likely to be a violent criminal than a Jew. I avoid it just to be safe.

    5. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      But is it because they're black or because they're mostly poor, uneducated and hopeless? Blacks from stable middle class homes seem to do about as well as their white counterparts. Is it any surprise that some black kid from the ghetto with no father and an addicted uncaring mother turns to a life of crime?

      People like you who make statements like "Is it any surprise that some black kid from the ghetto with no father and an addicted uncaring mother turns to a life of crime?" are part of the problem. As long as such behavior is "expected" society will do little or nothing to stop it.

      I grew up poor. I knew who my father was, but my father was an extremely sadistic man who used to torture me by administering electric
      shocks to me when I was around 8 years old. He did other awful things to me which I will not detail here. The point of me saying the
      preceding is that I could have become some sort of monster after the treatment I received as a child. But I CHOSE NOT TO BECOME
      THAT.

      We all have a choice -- whether we know who our father was or not, whether we grew up in a ghetto or not, etc. We can make excuses
      that attempt to claim our bad behavior is a result of our childhood environment or we can act like an adult and make conscious choices
      to behave in some other way. Growing up in ghetto justifies NOTHING, and to claim otherwise is a goddamned lie and the worst kind
      of lie because it is the kind of lie which provides an excuse for evil. So fuck you and your bullshit about why people might turn to a life
      of crime -- it is bullshit and it completely discounts the ability of the person involved to make a choice. Excuses like you are obviously
      fond of are ENABLERS for bad behavior. As in : "That poor downtrodden boy, he never had a chance". Such thinking is bullshit and
      anyone with a bit of intelligence and a spine knows this is true. ...

    6. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      That poor boy. After being tormented by his sadist father, he had to become a racist idiot. He had no choice.

    7. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      That poor boy. He never knew that people with a concept of self-identity are capable of making choices.

      And people that aren't self-aware tend to make really, really bad choices, but to be fair, most colored people don't know that they have no sense of self, and are merely driven by instinct.

    8. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You got a small penis. Get over it.

    9. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      MUH DICK

      You're black, right?

    10. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Ah yes, the myth of the large black penis.

      And what a myth it is. Did you know that most African-Americans have average sized penises?

    11. Re:Races are different by AK+Marc · · Score: 0

      Crime is defined by the white people who arrest every black person they see. Any segregated neighborhood will have higher crime for that reason. And they aren't allowed to leave their neighborhood to move into white ones. But it's the black's fault for existing.

    12. Re:Races are different by Spy+Handler · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Blacks from stable middle class homes seem to do about as well as their white counterparts.

      Exactly. Blacks with 100 IQ do about as well as whites with 100 IQ. I've known a black colleague whose IQ I'd estimate to be around 120. He was definitely one of the better workers at the company.

      Now the elephant in the room is, do all the races have exactly the same IQ distribution amongst their population? Test results say no. Need citation? Just look up anything, SAT, GRE, MCAT, police dept entrance exams, fireman exams, military exams, straight IQ tests, anything. The body of evidence is overwhelming.

    13. Re:Races are different by Livius · · Score: 0

      People like you who make statements like "Is it any surprise that some black kid from the ghetto with no father and an addicted uncaring mother turns to a life of crime?" are part of the problem.

      Wrong - the problem is people refusing to think critically about the true causes of poverty and crime, and being so blinded by your own racism that you can only conceive of a statistical correlation with on race as being an injustice perpetrated by a different race.

    14. Re:Races are different by drinkypoo · · Score: 0

      You forgot to remove the line breaks, C&P troll.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    15. Re:Races are different by amiga3D · · Score: 0

      You completely mistook my response. I replied to the racism in the comment. People are a product of their environment. Some are more observant and adept and rise above their culture to become good people but most do not. The problem is not their race however. To judge anyone by anything other than their actions is unacceptable. The fact they grew up in terrible circumstances is not an excuse for their behavior but a reason. If you expect to solve the problem you have to attack the disease and not the symptoms. Tragically most who come from these kinds of places are irrecoverable. Some learn to change but most never will.

    16. Re:Races are different by amiga3D · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Environment is more important than IQ. There are plenty of highly intelligent criminals. If you educate people with high IQ and no moral convictions you end up with a very dangerous criminal.

    17. Re:Races are different by amiga3D · · Score: 0

      Do you avoid blacks wearing a suit and tie carrying a business briefcase and getting out of a Lexus?

    18. Re: Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Blacks can be Jews. Sammy Davis Jewnior.

    19. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Daddy was diddling in your tookie jar? Do tell.

    20. Re:Races are different by dasunt · · Score: 1

      Now the elephant in the room is, do all the races have exactly the same IQ distribution amongst their population? Test results say no. Need citation? Just look up anything, SAT, GRE, MCAT, police dept entrance exams, fireman exams, military exams, straight IQ tests, anything. The body of evidence is overwhelming.

      The body of evidence is overwhelming. IQs have been steadily rising over the past century. The phenomenon even has it's own name: The Flynn Effect.

      It seems that for the population as a whole, nurture and not nature has a strong effect on IQ. We have some indications of what that "nurture" may be - nutrition, education, household stability, etc.

      So lets not jump on the "some races are naturally dumb" bandwagon quite yet, until we even out the nurture part.of the equation. Until we eliminate food insecurity in poor households, until an inner city school is just as good as a private school, until we've brought livable incomes to all, we should not and can not excuse the problem by saying some races just don't have what it takes.

      We need to fix our society, because as it happens, we've set up a class of people (which partially correlates to some racial groups) to more likely fail than succeed. And that's a drain on the present and the future.

    21. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your line of reasoning is flawed for the simple reason: you cannot attain intelligence without reaching some kind of morality. The main reason behind this phenomena is that you have to deeply understand logic. And a major part of the logic is learning about fallacies. Flawed reasoning is the first cause of immorality. Empathy, conscience, self-control, respect for others, kindness, tolerance, and fairness are all logical in your very own interest.

    22. Re:Races are different by amiga3D · · Score: 1

      I've always thought that was the difference between wisdom and intelligence. It is possible to be very intelligent and yet be unwise or immoral. Sociopaths are often extremely intelligent.

    23. Re:Races are different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is one of the stupidest things I've ever read: "And they (blacks) aren't allowed to leave their neighborhood to move into white ones." This is just so incorrect on so many levels.

      Blacks move into a white neighborhood? I've not heard of any burning crosses on anyone's lawn in a very long time. They are basically left alone. But should a white move into a black neighborhood? I doubt you'd be lucky enough to be basically left alone.

      My wife (white) used to work as a paramedic in Atlanta, and she told me that one of the black paramedics that she work with was complaining that he and his wife saved up their money and bought a house in a nice (mostly white) neighborhood outside Atlanta, and later became very pissed that, as he told her, the black drug dealers from downtown Atlanta were using their drug money to buy houses in his neighborhood, and now their property value was going downhill fast.

      No, people, anyone (including blacks!) can live anywhere in this country they choose (and can afford) to. I have seen undeniable proof of that, over many cities, and many states. Of course better (more expensive) properties limit who can buy into them, but then, I'm white, and I can't afford a nice property either. Am I being discriminated against? Give me a break. I'm just too lazy to work my ass off to afford that. For the most part, so is everyone else who complains about life "Not being fair". This country is filling with whiny babies who aren't willing to work for what they want, and too many that expect a handout for everything. ...Umm...what does this have to do with Russian hackers...?

    24. Re:Races are different by AK+Marc · · Score: 1

      I've not heard of any burning crosses on anyone's lawn in a very long time.

      Yeah, you have to keep your eyes open to see things like that. There were two lynchings this year of Black men for dating white women. Or is the fact that you are unwilling to notice such things proof they didn't happen?

      No, people, anyone (including blacks!) can live anywhere in this country they choose (and can afford) to.

      Again, simply and factually wrong. The Municipality of Anchorage explicitly passed a resolution 5 years ago affirming the right of landlords and sellers to discriminate based on sexual preference. Or does "anyone" not include gays? They aren't alone in that, but I lived there at the time and spoke at the meeting about it.

      "Not being fair".

      So you are saying that DWB doesn't exist because you find it inconvenient? You are asserting that gays don't have explicit laws against them?

  3. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    I like this guy. He's been doing it for what, a decade?

    Go back to sid=20721 you nigger lover

    1. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ooooh, watch out! it's one of those edgy young racist trolls!
      You're so, so tough. Go on, say nigger again. Show us what a tough boy you are!

    2. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Feeding trolls in 2014... the shame of it.

    3. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      When it comes to racial matters, everyone needs to speak truth to prejudice.
      White men need to remember that silence equals violence when it comes to bigoted hate speech.

  4. Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    From your friendliest Russians in the North - You'll all get new credit cards this year! - how many breaches took place in 2014 lol...

  5. Fox-IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For a while there I thought part of the hacker collective is called Fox-IT. That's about right

  6. A Christmas Pony by Grr Raoul Leash by DrunkenTerror · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Everything was silent that Christmas Eve. Only the lightly falling snow
    that decorated the landscape seemed to exhibit life. The children of the
    Streamer family had gone to bed early in hopes that Santa would come. Tom
    Streamer and his lovely wife Laura were snuggled in each other's arms,
    anticipating the joyous laughter that soon will fill the Midwestern farmhouse
    as it did each Christmas before. Laura was asleep but Tom was engrossed in
    thought.

    Tom had promised himself that this year's drought and its devastating
    effects on his family's income would not spoil this Christmas for his children.
    But the lack of revenue made it impossible for him to buy the one thing his
    children wanted so desperately: a pony. All Midwestern farm kids, except his,
    had ponies to ride and Tom felt a sense of guilt not being able to afford one.

    Tom looked over towards Laura. He then realized he was a lucky man to
    have such a beautiful and adoring family. His fifteen year old son, Jimmy, had
    made All American in just his freshman year of high school. His thirteen year
    old daughter, Amy, was fast becoming a remarkable woman.

    Without warning, Tom's thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash coming
    from the roof of the two-story wood framed house. Startled, Laura woke to hear
    the supports in the attic creak under the strain of something heavy.

    "What is it?" Laura asked, wiping the sleep from her eyes.

    "I don't know," Tom replied, moving quickly out of bed and putting on a
    robe. "Let's find out."

    Laura followed Tom's lead while also slipping on a robe.

    As they scampered out of the master bedroom, they were greeted in the
    hallway by Jimmy and Amy.

    "Is that Santa?" Amy asked.

    Jimmy said, "I don't think so, Amy. But I'm ready for anything."

    Tom and Laura laughed as Jimmy knifed his hands through the air. He was
    taking Karate lessons at the local YMCA and was anxious to demonstrate his
    newfound skill. Amy and Jimmy soon followed their parent's laughter with
    snickers of their own.

    "Come on, 'Karate Kid.' Let's see what's going on," Tom said, grinning
    while ruffling his right hand through Jimmy's thick curly hair.

    The family followed the creaking sound along the rafters.

    "It seems to be heading towards the chimney," Laura said perplexed.

    "It is Santa!" Amy exclaimed.

    "Don't jump to conclusions just yet young lady," Tom said with a fake
    scowl on his face. "The fireplace is lit. Maybe it's an animal that got on
    the roof from a nearby tree and wants to get close to the heat coming from the
    chimney. It's cold outside you know."

    "By the sound of it, it's a pretty *BIG* animal don't you think, Dad?"
    Jimmy went back to making Karate chops again.

    They huddled around the top of the staircase, crouching down to get the
    full view of the roaring fire in the fireplace, wondering what the source of
    the sound on the roof was going to do next.

    All of a sudden the fire in the fireplace blew out with a whooshing sound.
    But just as suddenly, the fire roared back to life. The four of them gasped.
    There, standing in front of the fireplace, was a very large man with a white
    beard dressed in a red suit, wearing gloves and a cap and stroking the head of
    a magnificent pony!

    "Ho ho ho,

    1. Re: A Christmas Pony by Grr Raoul Leash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      tl;dr... sorry it did look intresting

  7. "Racist" is code for Anti-White by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Look at who scores at the bottom of every IQ test, who is way over-represented in prisons, who is more likely to be unemployed, who is unable to commit to raising a child. It sure ain't Asians.

    There is no man more blind than he who refuses to see.

    1. Re:"Racist" is code for Anti-White by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      I can tell you what I see: I see people spitting venom at other people they will never meet but still hate, just because they are not 100% right them. I see idiots shooting at innocent people, and I see idots shoot at other innocent people, because another idiot shot one innocent of them. I see people of all skin colors in that same wheel of poverty.

      To show you how stupid your questions are, I could answer all (except the first and last perhaps) of your questions with one word: males. However, I also see what great things males did to the world, so it might be better to not condemn all men, just the criminals, and even not them, but only their deeds and bad behaviours.

    2. Re:"Racist" is code for Anti-White by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Because men are evil, right?

      You basically destroyed your own argument by associating yourself with stereotypical feminazis.

    3. Re:"Racist" is code for Anti-White by amiga3D · · Score: 0

      And you didn't even really read the comment. If you did then your reading comprehension is abysmal.

    4. Re:"Racist" is code for Anti-White by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because men are evil, right?

      You basically destroyed your own argument by associating yourself with stereotypical feminazis.

      The point of his saying "To show you how stupid your questions are, I could answer all (except the first and last perhaps) of your questions with one word: males. " The point he is making is NOT that males are inherently bad.

      He's pointing out how stupid the AC poster was who asked "Look at who scores at the bottom of every IQ test, who is way over-represented in prisons, who is more likely to be unemployed, who is unable to commit to raising a child."
      Males is a correct answer because females would be a wrong answer to those questions.
      However you choose two groups of people, one scores higher than the other on any measure. You could compare Icelanders vs Swedes and one of them would have higher prison rates than the other etc.
      There are other answers as well depending upon how you divided groups of people, e.g. Southern Italians vs Northern Italians, the southern ones are over-represented, so the answer would be "Southern Italians".

      You still don't understand all this, do you?

  8. Finally, proof, Communism has failed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Russia is now glorious and strong, with the practice of good, honest, capitalist values that show the benefit of hard work and wholesome productivity.

    Unlike dirty communism where you had to steal just to survive!

    1. Re:Finally, proof, Communism has failed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      At least the American James Watson was allocated some of the proceeds.

  9. Courtesy of unreported vulnerabilities by NSA. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NSA knows, NSA won't tell.

  10. Dem haxxorz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    dey be haxxin.

  11. They're only stealing from banks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why should I care then.

    1. Re:They're only stealing from banks? by guruevi · · Score: 1

      Because that's where your taxes will go. How much of your taxes go to people being the victim of identity theft? None. How many times does the FBI/NSA/CIA get involved when one of our citizens' bank account is emptied by hackers? Never.

      But if a corporation like Sony gets hacked or the banks get stolen from (even though they can simply restore their databases back to reflect the original amounts afterwards) then there will be a large investigation and the POTUS will get involved etc etc.

      --
      Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
  12. The Robin Hood Myth by rmdingler · · Score: 1
    ...money is stolen not from the customers, but from the bank itself.

    One of the most astonishingly accurate generalizations I've ever heard is, "If you consort with folks who steal, eventually, they will steal from you."

    One of the most astonishingly inaccurate observations I can recall is the "Honor Among Thieves" urban legend.

    --
    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Ernest Hemingway

  13. Yup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The company sells its services to the Dutch government. The level of service is about on par though, as is the terminology and depth of understanding.

  14. "But from the bank itself" by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1

    As a result, the money is stolen not from the customers, but from the bank itself.

    "Party on, Garth."

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  15. Why North Korea? by edibobb · · Score: 1

    Why does Obama want to retaliate against North Korea for hacking a Japanese movie company, but not Russia for hacking U.S. and international banks?

  16. Windows domain controller .. by lippydude · · Score: 1

    "the attackers used the program RDPdoor for remote access to the bank network and the program “MBR Eraser” to remove traces and to crack Windows computers and servers .. The software called “Mimikatz” is built in this program. This is an open source software that allows to obtain passwords of user accounts logged in the Windows system. link

  17. Time for extreme measures. by lsatenstein · · Score: 1

    If these hackers get into government sites, I would consider it an act of treason or warfare. Result should be death penalty or lifetime in prison.

    If is a bank, then at least 50 years and a day in prison as a dishwasher.

    --
    Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
  18. In the USA the banks rob you. by bussdriver · · Score: 1

    Whatever that USSR joke line is. but reversed.