DIGITAL THEFT NOT LIMITED TO ONLINE HACKING

A Swedish bank located just north of Stockholm recently reported that a group of Swedish criminals with prior fraud and theft convictions nearly stole millions of dollars from the bank last August.  However, the criminals did not attempt to gain online access to the internet banking system.  Instead, they installed an advanced technical equipment underneath an employee’s desk, allowing them to control his computer remotely.  When they began to transfer the funds from the bank into another account, the employee noticed the operation and pulled the cable to the device.  Investigators, however, did not indicate how the criminals gained access to the employee’s workstation in the first place.