Remmy Nweke/DigitalSENSE Business News:
A suspected 12-man gang was at the weekend arrested for
attempting to steal millions from bank using remote controlled devices,
otherwise known as Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM), reports Techworld.
KVMs are used to switch between two or three desktop
computers sharing the same keyboard, mouse and monitor.
DigitalSENSE
Business News gathered that the gang was arrested Thursday evening by the
Police's Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) of the Metropolitan Police, between the
ages of 23 and 50 years old.
They were accused of involvement in the alleged attempted
heist at addresses in London, a statement said.
In an extraordinary plot, Metropolitan Police foiled attempts
to steal millions of pounds from a London branch of Santander Bank, using a
remote control device planted on one of its computers by a bogus maintenance
man.
Police sources further said that they have been monitoring
the gang for some time, swooping when it became clear that a theft might be
about to happen from the Surrey Quays branch of Santander Bank in London.
A bank source confirmed to press that a KVM (keyboard,
video, mouse) was fitted by someone posing as a maintenance worker, something
that would have allowed the gang to control that machine remotely from inside
the bank’s network.
Police also pointed out that this fraud was carried out using what appears from a police photograph to be a wireless extender allowing the setup to be controlled from a distance.
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*Pix: some KVM devices
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