Moscow — A previously unknown ring of Russian-language hackers has stolen as much as $10m from US and Russian banks in the past 18 months, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security company that runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe. The MoneyTaker group broke into 20 systems, which includes 15 US lenders, targeting ATMs with "mules" and Russia’s interbank money-transfer system, Group-IB said in a report provided to Bloomberg. The hackers, who also breached a UK software and service provider, are now probing institutions in Latin America and may be trying to compromise the Swift international bank messaging service, according to the security company, whose clients range from Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank PJSC to Raiffeisen Bank International. "Criminals have changed tactics and are now focusing on banks rather than their clients, as was standard operating procedure in the past," Dmitry Volkov, the head of Group-IB’s cyber intelligence department, said b...
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