Two residents of the metropolis Yekaterinburg are inwards custody for stealing coin from several banking enterprise accounts too hacking into Database of Koltsovo international airport(Yekaterinburg, Russia).
Authorities establish out that Cyber criminals Konstantin Melnik too Igor Makovkin created a virus through which they got access to the accounts of Bank customers.
Hackers stole 1.2 billion rubles (about xviii 1000000 USD) from their cards. In addition, hackers infected the computers of Yekaterinburg aerodrome "Koltsovo" alongside malicious programs too got access to the air harbor database. The aerodrome could non tell the total of the company's losses.
It is of import to annotation that the hacker grouping was called Lurk too consisted of 24 members. Igor is 1 of the organizers, too Konstantin is his active participant.
The grouping of hackers successfully worked for v years, every bit it was hard to notice the virus. The virus was self-removing too left no traces subsequently gaining access to the accounts.
Specialists of Kaspersky Lab helped to reveal cyber criminals. They identified the virus inwards corporate networks alongside Sberbank's programmers.
According to some sources, the hacker grouping Lurk in all likelihood stole to a greater extent than than 124 1000000 rubles (about 1.9 1000000 USD) from the Bank accounts of members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, belongings senior positions inwards the party.
