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 Monday, February 13 2017 19:56
Marianna Mkrtchyan

Armenian National Security Council is looking for members of a  specialized gang who stole about 133 million AMD from Armenian ATMs 

Armenian National Security Council is looking for members of a  specialized gang who stole about 133 million AMD from Armenian ATMs 

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.

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