What did the criminals do in virtual reality, who they attacked and how they made money from it.
If earlier ordinary criminals were dangerous, then with the spread of the Internet, on which we all love to walk, the main danger lies in cybercriminals. Each of us can become their victim. And someone, alas, has already become. Here are 7 sophisticated cybercrimes that happened not so long ago.
Love free Wi-Fi, be ready to pay for it
So in 2007-2014, hackers managed to hack the Wi-Fi network of luxury hotels. It is clear that wealthy people stay in such places, which means they have enough money, for hackers they are like a red rag for a bull.
And people settled in, even though they were wealthy, but they did not disdain free Wi-Fi and immediately connected it on their work laptop, where a message immediately popped up asking to update the Flash player in the browser.
Those who agreed to the installation have earned themselves big problems in the form of fraudsters' access to logins and passwords stored in the browser, accounts and passwords of social networks, and e-mail services.
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Bank card: it seems like there is money, but once - and they no longer exist
In 2008, using the weak security system of the bank RBS WorldPay, hackers managed to steal the data of bank card holders, and then to forge plastic cards. The cardholders of this bank were left with nothing in 49 world financial capitals. The entire operation took the hackers 30 minutes, and their jackpot was $ 9 million in cash.
Protection against hackers was powerless against hackers
The hackers managed to gain access to the computers of the organization defending against hackers. It all happened as follows: the company's clients received phishing emails, which were allegedly from the company itself, asking them to enter the site and log in. Naturally, the site was left, or rather an exact copy of the company's site. Conscientious clients immediately did what they were asked to do, and the fraudsters could only catch passwords and logins. The attack cost the company $ 66 million.
They wanted to steal $ 950 million, but they stole $ 101 million due to a typo
2016 year. The Central Bank of Bangladesh keeps its money in a savings bank in the accounts of the US Federal Reserve. Surely, the bank believed that this was a reliable and justified place. Until their accounts were robbed for $ 101 million. In general, the account had $ 950 million, but something the muscle wavered, and the hackers sealed themselves up during the transfer. A typo and opened a criminal scheme.
There is no salvation from Petya
In 2016-2017, the Petya virus came to Russia and Ukraine, which somehow penetrated the user's computer, encrypted all files on the hard disk, overwritten the data to boot the operating system, and asked for $ 300 to unlock. Regardless of whether the user paid or not, all information on the disk was destroyed.
No subscription, although it is
In 2016-2018, about 15,000 Android smartphone owners were affected by having money stolen from their phone balance for subscriptions they did not install.
And it was like this: users downloaded pseudo-useful applications created by hackers, into which Trojans were embedded. The latter turned off Wi-fi on the smartphone and turned on the mobile Internet (WAP-subscriptions work only through a mobile Internet connection). Then the script went to the pages of WAP-subscriptions created by the hacker and pressed the subscribe button. Meanwhile, the Trojan was deleting all SMS from the operator containing information about subscriptions.
Computer hangs? Perhaps someone is mining money on it
In 2017, more than 1,600 million attempts were made to infect users with Trojans-miners - programs for generating cryptocurrency for a hacker.
Hackers embedded the miner's code into the banner on the site, mostly online cinemas. While the user was enjoying watching the movie, his computer warmed up to the limit, the processor was loaded at 100%, and cryptocurrency was earned on the other side of the screen.