ArmInfo.International specialized criminal gang stole about 133mln AMD from Armenian ATMs, the Armenian NSC press-service told ArmInfo.
"According to Armenian NSC data, a specialized criminal gang operates in former Soviet states, which thefts funds by sending to emails computer viruses. Armenian NSC, attaching great importance to private data security, corporative and financial data, calls individuals and legal entities to be careful and delete the unknown mails without opening them", reads the NSC statement. Wherein the department noted that a similar case was registered in Armenia as well. Thus, a criminal gang, in the name of one of Armenian State Bodies, send working mails of employees of a commercial bank operating in Armenia several dozens emails with computer virus through which they penetrated into the internal network of the bank, and took the information stored there.
"Then, a remote program has been implemented and ran on one of the bank's servers by which a commercial bank ATMs were infected with the above malware thereby violating their natural work. Subsequently, members of the gang, who arrived in Armenia, stole about 133mln AMD from 22 ATMs in Yerevan and Abovyan. The identities of all three foreign nationals who have committed crimes are found out. The Armenian National Security Service opened a criminal case on the grounds of article 254 part 4 of claim 1 of the Criminal Code of Armenia (illegal or improper mastery of the information stored in the computer system), 256 part 2, p. 1 and 2. (development, use and distribution of malicious programs in order to enrichment), 181 part 3 1 and paragraph 2 (embezzlement in a large scale, by means of computer technology), 190 hours. 3 1. and 2. (appropriation of property obtained by crime). These persons declared internationally wanted", reads the NSC statement.
To note, measures are being taken to identify the other members of the group in cooperation with international partners.