Armored doors couldn\’t stop twin hacker brothers from being arrested | Video

There seem to be few shocking cyber crimes in recent times, and the crime committed by a pair of twin brother hackers arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia may be one of them. Russian police have launched an operation to combat fraud against banks, including state-owned bank Sberbank, the largest financial institution in the Russian Federation, and other major national banks. The twin brother hackers were one of the targets of this crackdown.

Russian cyber intelligence company Group-IB assisted in the investigation and revealed that the brothers had defrauded 12 million rubles (US$225,000) in two years, and had long been involved in previous fraud-related cases. While on probation, they know very well that as long as they are caught committing crimes again, the local law enforcement agencies will not let them go. So they installed an armored door to their residence and bought an electromagnetic transducer to prevent the data on their computer equipment from being accessed by others. Although they could not be proven guilty at the time, it is still believed that they were committing identity fraud during the initial interrogation. The Russian Federal Security Service and the Investigative Section of the Ministry of Internal Affairs spent three years collecting evidence…

According to informants, the hackers also set up text message alerts to notify other members of the gang to destroy evidence. When the police broke in, At that time, the twins tried to destroy all evidence and flushed cash, USB flash drives and mobile phones into the sewer. But Group-IB, which works with police to collect and analyze evidence brought back from the scene, said the changes to destroying evidence were useless.

Pictured above is one of the twins accused of defrauding thousands of Russian citizens, sitting in front of a pile of cash he was trying to flush down the drain.

The hacker group cracked 7,000 bank accounts in two years.

Man surrounded by Russian police accused of running a huge crime syndicate that over 2 yearsThese villains collected hundreds of thousands.

Their criminal operations are multifaceted. First, users who visited the modified page would be infected with a banking Trojan controlled by the brothers. When an infected user attempts to access a banking page, the Trojan displays a fake page and collects the user\’s username and password, as well as their phone number. Although this information allowed hackers to log into online banking accounts, they still needed to find a way to obtain a one-time SMS authorization code sent to the user\’s phone in order to make the transfer.

This is where social engineering comes into play. Using information obtained from hacked accounts in advance, hackers call their targets, pretend to be bank employees, and trick them into revealing their authorization codes, or direct them to another fake website to enter their authorization codes, and then fake the website Automatically send the authorization code back to the hacker. So, the game is over and the account is cleared.

A statement from the Russian Ministry of Interior said: Between 2013 and 2015, criminals broke into more than 7,000 Russian bank user accounts. On average, 70,000 rubles ($1,320) were stolen from each account, and the account with the highest stolen amount lost 1 million rubles ($19,000). In some months, they earned about 1.5 million rubles ($28,300).

Several contacts related to the gang leader were also detained at the same time, but the specific list has not been disclosed.

This is not the first famous case of twins committing crimes together. In 1998, China\’s brothers Hao Jinglong and Hao Jingwen were sentenced to death for hacking into a bank\’s computer network and stealing 720,000 yuan ($87,000). This amount pales in comparison to the multi-million-dollar digital robberies in the world today.

Group-IB has now released a video of the raid. The video not only shows the police using chainsaws to break through the armored door, but also shows them trying to flush around 500,000 rubles in cash into the sewer. The classic V for Vendetta mask, representing the anonymous hacker collective, also appears in the video.