Law and Crime

Hundreds of thousand men, women and children pass through criminal networks becoming more and more organized, more and more powerful every year

Polish workers turned into in slavery in the south of Italy; Moldavian, Belarus, Ukrainian, Bulgarian girls sold by the networks of souteneurs across the whole Europe; Albanian children, closed in the Greek cave, whence they are let out in order to ask a handout only; make up the network of trade existing on the Balkans today. A new scandal emerges every month. In rare cases it is placed on the front pages of newspapers. It is more often smothered up by the authorities involved in the crimes or because of the unwillingness to parade a mean reality.

Every year similar infringements of human rights concern of a number of people reaches from 700 thousand up to 2 million persons and give the income of about 9,2 billion euros, making this kind of the organized crime one of the most profitable. The European Union is progressively less protected; it can be asserted, even if the exact statistics on this item does not exist. According to the data, from 200 thousand up to 500 thousand persons annually become the victims of the trade in people, about 120 thousand of them are from the Balkan countries and 50 thousand — from the former USSR.

The police determined that this programme was the version of Haxdoor. There was good reason to believe, that Corpse was the author of a primordial programme Haxdoor, and also its various versions – A311 Death and Nuclear Grabber. They were offered for sale on one of the Russian sites for the price from several hundreds up to several thousand dollars, depending on the version.

The new version of Haxdoor turned on, when the visitor printed the address of the bank in the line of a browser. Then the espionage programme wrote down, what keys had been pressed to intercept the password. After that money was transferred to the new account and criminals took away cash in the subsidiaries of the bank.

The Swedish police declared that Russian trace in this swindle was not limited to a source of the virus.

Anders Alkvist, the main inspector of the department engaged in the struggle against computer crimes of the Swedish national management of criminal investigations, in telephone interview informed that the stolen passwords had been transferred to the computer server in the USA which had transferred the information to the Russian server.

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…