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<\/a><\/p>\nThe victims asked Kaspersky Lab for assistance and our Global Research and Analysis Team got down to work. The investigation revealed three separate groups of hackers who inflicted multiple millions in terms of financial damage to the banks. At the Security Analyst Summit 2016 experts from GReAT came out with an investigation report. For safety sake names of the victims have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/k8em0\/status\/696636003692314624<\/p>\n
ATMs at the end of a gun<\/h3>\n
A banking Trojan with the melodic-sounding name Metel (also known as Corkow) was initially discovered in 2011: at that time the malware was hunting users of online banking systems. In 2015 the criminals behind Metel took aim at banks, specifically ATM machines. Using their savvy and a malicious campaign, these criminals turned their common credit cards into limitless ones. Imagine printing money, but even better.<\/p>\n
How did they do it?<\/em><\/p>\n The criminals successively infected computers of bank employees either with the help of spear phishing<\/a> emails that included malicious executable files or through targeting a browser vulnerabilities. Once inside the network they used legitimate software to hack other PCs until they reached the device they were looking for \u2014 the one that had access to money transactions. For example, these were PCs of call center operators or the support team.<\/p>\n APT Predictions for 2016: There will be no more APTs! Oh, wait\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/mLC5zQqjzK<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) November 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n