Posted on 10/08/2013 6:39:52 AM PDT by Innovative
The Metropolitan Police have foiled an extraordinary plot to steal millions of pounds from a London branch of Santander Bank using a remote control device planted on one of its computers by a bogus maintenance man.
On Thursday evening, the Police's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested 12 men between the ages of 23 and 50 years old accused of being involved in the alleged attempted heist at addresses in London, a statement said.
A bank source confirmed to press that a KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) was fitted by someone posing as a maintenance worker, something that would have allowed the gang to control that machine remotely from inside the bank's network.
KVMs are normally used to switch between two or three desktop computers sharing the same keyboard, mouse and monitor but this fraud was carried out using what appears from a police photograph to be a wireless extender allowing the setup to be controlled from a distance.
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But in many cases it's totally electronic only.
Great plot for a movie—only we don’t need the bad guys to learn anything new.
Not the first time this has happened.
Ocean’s 493rd
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