A group of fraudsters has been arrested in Yakutsk and Moscow for allegedly compromising all the ATMs in the city of Yakutsk - population: around 210,000 - in the Republic of Yakutia in the Russian Federation.
Three of the men formed the actual criminal group, and the fourth - a Moscow-based malware developer - was "subcontracted" by them and received 100,000 rubles (some $3200) to develop a custom ATM virus with which they would infect the devices.
Every man had his role in the operation: one who used to work as a head of an IT department obtained access to the ATMs, the second one - a system administrator - infected them, and the third one was supposedly intended to be the money mule. [Date: 3 December 2010; Source: http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1555]
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