Cyberpolice Of Ukraine Neutralized A Fraudulent Group

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The criminals used the vulnerability in the loyalty program system of an all-Ukrainian supermarket chain to steal money.

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Cyberpolice officers in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, together with investigators from the Dnipropetrovsk police, neutralized a cybercriminal group that cracked the computer chains of supermarkets.

The group included five residents of the Dnipropetrovsk region aged 30 to 45 years old, according to the press service of the Cyber Police. Participants in the criminal group used vulnerabilities in the loyalty program system of the All-Ukrainian supermarket chain to withdraw funds from user accounts. Attackers managed to steal more than 2 million UAH (about 5.3 million rubles). Cyber police officers identified all the criminals and reported the vulnerability to the company's IT specialists.

Having received information about the vulnerability in the software, the criminals used it to cash out the credited bonus funds through the cash desks of stores. All fraudulent operations were carried out in the user's personal account in the bonus card management application. The fraudsters restored the initial balance account on cards through certain software manipulations in applications, actually replenishing the accounts. This allowed them to withdraw funds an unlimited number of times.

Attackers issued bonus cards using fake, lost or stolen passports and documents. For six months, the defendants in the case conducted more than 2 thousand operations to withdraw cash from these cards.

Law enforcement officers conducted several searches of the place of residence of the members of the criminal group, seizing additional storage media, bank cards and cards of participants in the loyalty program of the All-Ukrainian chain of stores. In addition, at the place of residence of one of the defendants, police seized nearly fifty packages of narcotic substances, a combat pistol and cartridges for it.

Three members of the group have already been suspected. One of them was detained in accordance with Art. 208 Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine with additional legal qualifications of its actions, provided for by Part 1 of Art. 307 (Illegal production, manufacture, purchase, storage, transportation, transfer or sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues) and Art. 263 (Illegal handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The issue of declaring suspicion of two more members of the group is being resolved.





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