Friday, February 19, 2010

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WASHINGTON (SuaraMedia News) - Shortly after the United States appointed a new coordinator for cyberspace security, U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, said that there are a number of Russian computer hackers who have managed to break into and drain the contents of banks in the U.S..
The FBI is investigating the activities of criminal gangs from the Russian Internet. Reportedly there are millions of dollars of missing money from U.S. banks.

The hacker, known as the Russian Business Network, not heard his voice in the last two years after masterminding a series of crimes. These include, identity theft, fraud, spam, and child pornography.

However, the group came from Russia are back in action, as disclosed in a news report in the Wall Street Journal. Citigroup noted that the focus of the FBI investigation in connection with the Russian gerimbolan action.

Newspapers are claiming that there was an organized attack by the network. The result, large amounts of money floating after the network computer system Citigroup target.

Reports on the cyberspace attacks occurred only one day ago, after Washington appointed as chief Howard Schmidt cyberspace security.

Schmidt, who also held similar positions for several years in the George W. Bush, entrusted with the responsibility to coordinate the efforts of the U.S. government, military and intelligence to block the invasion of hackers.

There are a number of reports of hacker attacks against the U.S. government in recent months, including the theft of money worth more than $ 9 million from the system's Royal Bank of Scotland. The threat was made President Barack Obama make the defense against Internet attacks as a national security priority, a policy shift that led to the appointment of Schmidt.

Citigroup's largest financial services companies in the world, denied that the FBI is conducting an investigation into the bank. Citigroup also denied that there was such a piercing.

"There is absolutely no system break-ins, no one lost. There is no loss to the bank and customers, "said Joe Petro, managing director of security and investigation of Citigroup. "It is not true that there is a case of losing millions of dollars that the FBI handled."

A bank spokesman said there was a depleted checking account customers more than $ 1 million because of broken hackers.

Origin of attack is still a matter of debate, but some reports said about the return of one of the criminal group most known Internet. The organization had disappeared in 2007 after moving base of operations from St. Petersburg to China. Vacuum long enough to make a number of the suspect that the group has disbanded, but experts say that the influence of these groups of organized crime is still quite strong.

"All clues lead to the resurrection there cyberspace crimes," said Antor Chuvakin, a computer security specialist in San Jose.

Burglary incident was not the first time this has happened to Citigroup or its bank customers. At the beginning of this year, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old hacker from Florida have been accused of organizing a series of computer attacks that cause damage worth millions of dollars over a period of several years.

Citibank is one of the banks who were targeted attacks, which resulted in more than 45 million credit card numbers stolen.

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