The press service of the Department of Cyber Police of the National Police of Ukraine reported that Ukrainian hackers transferred from the account of the entrepreneur more than 400 000 UAH using a bug in the online currency exchange service.
According to the police, they received a message from a 30-year-old resident of the Kyiv region that he got suspicious letters at his email address at night. The e-mail said the withdrawal of funds from his Bank account. According to the victim, the attackers managed to withdraw about 420 000 UAH.
During a pretrial investigation, law enforcement officers found two 33-year-old men who were involved in the crime. It turned out that one of them was engaged in the configuration and support of Internet resources.
The attacker used the vulnerability of the victim's online resource to steal funds. First of all, he blocked the work of the resource and the owner’s access to it. After that, the hacker transferred to his electronic wallets all the owner's funds.
According to investigators, the second participant of the criminal group who at that time was in another city began his part of the work. He conducted a number of transactions with various e-wallets to redirect funds, transferred them to cryptocurrency and then cashed.
Cyber Police officers together with Police investigators conducted six authorized searches at the same time. According to their results, computer equipment, additional media, draft records and mobile phones were seized.
According to the article on unauthorized intervention in work of computers, hackers face up to three years of imprisonment.
