Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
A key figure is missing in the court documents outlining the biggest computer attack ever of the U.S. financial system: the actual hacker. The Israeli mastermind of the crime syndicate with global operations — computer servers in Egypt, online casinos in Ukraine and Hungary, Azerbaijan payment processors and a Florida bitcoin exchange — created a digital mob without a true home country, according to prosecutors. So when the gang needed a hired gun, in this case a sophisticated computer thief, it apparently turned to a harbor known for some of the best. The hacker, identified only as co-conspirator 1 in a sweeping indictment unsealed on Tuesday, is actually a Russian master of digital break-ins known to federal agents and U.S. spy agencies who have tracked him for years, according to three people familiar with the investigation. Another indictment unsealed this week about the gang provides a little more, citing “a computer hacker who is believed to have resided in Russia” — one who infiltrated computer networks, located customer databases and exported the profile information to computers overseas. It is not unusual for prosecutors to withhold names in a continuing investigation. But talks about whether to publicly identify the hacker in […]
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