Figure of the day:
1 000 000
smartphones infected detainees MIA hackers.
Employees of the MIA of Russia with the active assistance of the company Group IB has detected and detained a group of hackers managed to distribute the Trojan over a million smartphones. This was reported by the press service of the MIA of Russia.
A group of hackers is described as interregional. Malefactors were engaged in that took money from Bank accounts, using they have created a Trojan. The malware allowed them to gain unauthorized access to the smartphone and using hidden SMS-commands to transfer money to a pre-prepared account.
Victims of the Trojan were more than a million mobile device users, and the damage from the activities of criminals has exceeded 50 million rubles.
Police have conducted 20 searches within the six regions of Russia, seizing computer equipment, hundreds of Bank cards and SIM cards issued on figureheads. members of the group were detained. Four of them were taken into custody, with the rest taken recognizance not to leave. Against them criminal case for fraud in the sphere of computer information.