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Hass Associates Cyber Warning Tips and ReviewsLONDON — International law enforcement agencies say the recent $45-million dollar ATM heist is just one of many scams they’re fighting in an unprecedented wave of sophisticated cyberattacks.Old-school robberies by masked criminals are being eclipsed by stealth multimillion dollar cybercrime operations which are catching companies and investigators by surprise.“We are seeing an unprecedented number of cyberscams that include phishing for financial data, viruses, credit card fraud and others,” Marcin Skowronek, an investigator at Europol’s European Cybercrime Center in The Hague said on Saturday.“In Europe, we are generally quite well protected against some types of fraud because of the chip and pin technology we use, but there are still shops and machines around the world who still take cards without chips. And the most popular destinations for this type of fraud are the United States and the Dominican Republic.”U.S. Investigators said Thursday a gang hit cash machines in 27 countries in two attacks — the first netting $5 million in December and then $40 million in February in a 10-hour spree that involved about 36,000 transactions.Hackers got into bank databases, eliminated withdrawal limits on prepaid debit cards and created access codes. Others loaded that data onto any plastic card — even a hotel keycard — with a magnetic stripeA similar scam yielded some 50 arrests this year in Europe during a joint police operation between Romanian police and Europol, Skowronek said.The operation took more than a year, involved some 400 police officers across Europe and required work comparing bank losses to illegal transactions and then cross-referencing suspects, said Skowronek, who said many national police forces were beefing up their undercover work in the cyberworld to catch criminals.Investigators found illegal workshops for producing devices and software to manipulate point-of-sale terminals. Illegal electronic equipment, financial data, cloned cards and cash were seized in raids in Britain and Romania.The group stole credit and debit card numbers and PIN codes by implanting card reading devices and malicious software on point-of-sale terminals. The criminals then used counterfeit payment cards with stolen data for further illegal transactions in countries that included Argentina, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the United States.Hass Associates Cyber Warning Tips and ReviewsREAD MORE:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8q5qXSDGW4http://www.slideshare.net/biggerprice/law-enforcement-agencies-grappling-with-spike-in-multimilliondollar-cyber-scamshttp://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/ausooke-1820841-article-code-85258083266ha-hass-associates-cyber-warning-tips/http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/766282/Law-enforcement-agencies-grappling-with-spike-in-multi-million-dollar-cyber-scamshttp://www.docstoc.com/docs/157391419/Law-enforcement-agencies-grapplinghttp://www.shelfari.com/groups/101845/discussions/488062/article-code-85258083266HA-Law-enforcement-agencies-grappling-wihttp://www.good.is/posts/article-code-85258083266ha-law-enforcement-agencies-grappling-with-spike-in-multi-million-dollar-cyber-scamshttp://www.myvidster.com/video/13100060/Law_enforcement_agencies_grappling_with_spike_in_multi-million-dollar_cyber_scams