A single cyber crime group has stolen more than a half million bank, credit and debit card accounts over the past two-and-a-half years using one of the most advanced strains of computer spyware in existence, according to research to be published today. The discovery is among the largest stolen data caches ever recovered.
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It’s not clear exactly who’s behind these attacks, but evidence points to Russian malware gangs. Brady said Sinowal had early ties with the Russian Business Network, a notorious, cyber-crime friendly Web hosting firm in St. Petersburg, Russia, that was dispersed last year due to international media attention. While the Sinowal authors no longer use RBN as a home base, Brady said his team could find no trace of a single Russian victim in the entire database of credentials and identities stolen from customers of hundreds of banks across the United States, Europe and Asia, and at least 27 other countries.
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