Leading cyber security firm McAfee has issued a startling
breaking news report that indicates the U.S.,
European and Latin American financial systems are under a massive financial
attacks that have digitally siphoned some $2.5 billion from thousands of
accounts from various financial institutions.
According to McAfee, the attacks are ongoing and
international law enforcement agencies are currently working to shut them
down:
McAfee and Guardian Analytics have uncovered a
highly sophisticated, global financial services fraud campaign that has
reached the American banking system. As this research study goes to press, we
are working actively with international law enforcement organizations to shut
down these attacks.
Unlike standard SpyEye and
Zeus attacks that typically feature live (manual) interventions,
we have discovered at least a dozen groups now using server-side components
and heavy automation. The fraudsters’ objective in these attacks is
to siphon large amounts from high balance accounts, hence
the name chosen for this research: Operation High Roller.
With no human participation required, each
attack moves quickly and scales neatly. This operation combines an insider
level of understanding of banking transaction systems with both custom and
off the shelf malicious code and appears to be worthy of the term
“organized crime.”
This study found 60 servers processing thousands of
attempted thefts from high-value commercial accounts and some high net worth
individuals. As the attack shifted emphasis from consumers to businesses,
mule business accounts allowed attempted transfers averaging in the thousands
of Euros, with some transfers as high as €100,000 (US$130,000).
Three distinct attack strategies have emerged as the
targets have expanded from the European Union, to Latin America, to the
United States.
Debunking the popular wisdom that only big banks are
affected, the research documents attacks at every class of financial
institution: credit union, large global bank, and regional bank. So far,
we estimate the criminals have attempted at least €60 million (US$78
million) in fraudulent transfers from accounts at 60 or more financial
institutions (FIs). If all of the attempted fraud campaigns were as
successful as the Netherlands example we describe in this report, the
total attempted fraud could be as high as €2 billion.
Source: Dissecting
Operation High Roller
Video News Report “Biggest cyber bank robbery
in history” from Sky News via The Daily Sheeple:
For the last week the Royal Bank of Scotland has
been plagued with problems
that have made it impossible for its 12 million customers to access cash via ATM’s, maintain their accounts online or
to even withdraw money at their local bank branches. Though the issues
affecting RBS may be unrelated, they have alarmed many observers as
indicators of problems within the European financial and banking systems. Silver
Doctors suggests
the attack discovered by McAfee may be to blame for the issues experienced by
RBS:
Sky News is reporting that McAfee Virus has uncovered
a series of financial attacks on US, UK, and Euro-zone banks with individual
transfers of over €100,000 being reported.
Is this an extension of RBS’ NatWest’s
complete banking system melt-down/ cash account rehypothecation,
which is now in its 8th day?
Our thoughts are this is either an Iranian ‘Stuxnet’ retaliation, or a false-flag banking
system lock up by the Western Central Banks themselves on which they can
conveniently pin the blame for an imminent derivatives induced contagion and
banking collapse.
Source: Silver
Doctors via SGT Report
Governments have needed a pretext to tighten banking
regulations and gain even more authority over the individual movement of
capital. Whether real or a false flag, this cyber attack
may very well give them the ammunition they need to take complete control of
the internet.
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