The robbery of a Scandinavian internet – bank provokes talks about Russian hackers (Part 1)
Last week the sum of money equalled 1 million dollars was stolen through the internet in Sweden. After this incident it was rumoured that Russian hacker nicknamed “the Corpse” was involved in the robbery.
This incident discoveries a mysterious world of Russian programmers and warns about the danger of the banking operations executed by means of internet. Nordea Bank, a Scandinavian financial company, which was involved in this case, noted that the computers of those clients had suffered where the antivirus programmes had not been installed.
Swedish police announced that the virus had spread by e – mail through the spam and had penetrated into computers at homes of the clients of a number of European and American banks. The policemen arrested several citizens of Sweden and other countries who had tried to receive the cash in the Nordea offices where money had been transferred through the internet.
Specialists in computer viruses did not know who the Corpse was. The mentioned virus secretly fixed the keys of a password which a client pressed…