- Jul 27, 2015
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Quote : " In less than two years, this group has conducted over 20 successful attacks on financial institutions and legal firms in the USA, UK and Russia. The group has primarily been targeting card processing systems, including the AWS CBR ( Russian Interbank System ) and purportedly SWIFT ( US ). Given the wide usage of STAR in LATAM, financial institutions in LATAM could have particular exposure to a potential interest from the MoneyTaker group. Get the report
Although the group has been successful at targeting a number of banks in different countries, to date, they have gone unreported. In addition to banks, the MoneyTaker group has attacked law firms and also financial software vendors. In total, Group-IB has confirmed 20 companies as MoneyTaker victims, with 16 attacks on US organizations, 3 attacks on Russian banks and 1 in the UK.
By constantly changing their tools and tactics to bypass antivirus and traditional security solutions and most importantly carefully eliminating their traces after completing their operations, the group has largely gone unnoticed. "
Quote : " Group-IB has turned over its MoneyTaker research dossier to Europol and Interpol as part of its recently signed cooperation in fighting cybercrime. "
Source : New Ruski hacker clan exposed: They're called MoneyTaker, and they're gonna take your money
