Group of men rob bank for £1.3 Million using a remote KVM.

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UK police have arrested eight men after a gang fitted remote-control hardware to a Barclays bank branch computer and stole £1.3m.

Money was slurped from accounts after crooks hooked up a KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) switch and 3G dongle to a terminal in the branch, officers said.

 

The suspects, aged between 24 and 47, were nabbed by cops from the Metropolitan Police's Central e-Crime Unit in a series of raids on Thursday and Friday. The Met said they had been arrested "in connection with an allegation of conspiracy to steal from Barclays Bank, and conspiracy to defraud UK banks".

Police said that "cash, jewellery, drugs, thousands of credit cards and personal data" are were recovered in a series of raids across London and Essex.

"The arrests are the result of a long-term intelligence-led operation by the Metropolitan Police's PeCU, in partnership with Barclays Bank, who have been investigating the theft of £1.3 million from the Swiss Cottage branch of Barclays in April 2013," a Met Police statement explains.

 

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/20/barclays_cyber_cops_make_arrests/

[Youbetternot]

Wow that's a lot of money they got out of that job

[Bluejay0]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/20/barclays_cyber_cops_make_arrests/

Interesting article. Criminals are truly stepping up in technological terms these days.

 

note: that user name..... *shudders*

[boggle4321]

if they had played more GTA V, they probably would have gotten away with bank robbery

[Mooshi]

if they had played more GTA V, they probably would have gotten away with bank robbery

 

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[Fetzie]

if they had played more GTA V, they probably would have gotten away with bank robbery

 

I dunno, in GTA IV you only get away with 250 grand.

[Samdb]

Heard about this on Friday, though it was pretty cool that they were able to just walk in and hook it up and nobody even noticed.

[Thunderjolt]

This is some sophisticated Payday stuff here!

[IvanSnipedYu]

Payday The Heist is that you?

Edit: I just notice the person on top of me already made the connection  :mellow:

[gill2k]

That's a pretty techie heist!

[mgsstar]

Wow this is pretty advanced way imo. But it would be really hard to hide a KVM imo as it is quite big.

[Legend932]

Wow this is pretty advanced way imo. But it would be really hard to hide a KVM imo as it is quite big.

Did you read the article? It states that someone posed as an IT engineer and installed the device, so he probably hid it inside the computer.

[Legend932]

This is some sophisticated Payday stuff here!

Except without criminals who can afford military grade weaponry and equipment but still for some reason would not invest some of the money they get in a half decent drill.

[winny3141]

if they had played more GTA V, they probably would have gotten away with bank robbery

Don't give Fox News proof that GTA 5 influences gamers negatively!!!!

[helping]

Heard about this on Friday, though it was pretty cool that they were able to just walk in and hook it up and nobody even noticed.

I assume a lot of people saw it and didn't bat an eye. When I worked at the hospital for a while there was hilarity over redundant staff and responsibilities, it makes me think that whenever someone saw it they assumed someone else did it for some valid reason.