Hacker Used His Own IP Address; Gets Five Years
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 12/22/2016 11:13 AM
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Tomasz Skowron, a 29-year-old man, was sentenced to five years in prison for using banking malware to steal $1,035,000 from victims all over the world.
Skowron was part of a cyber-gang that used banking malware to infect users. His duty was to transfer the stolen funds from the compromised accounts to his own, or to mules who would launder the money.
Skowron didn't use masking devices such as Tor, VPN or proxies in a few transactions and the banks were able to record his IP address. Authorities track it down to his home in Meredith Road, Worthing.
He also conducted a few man-in-the-middle attacks on companies that included a construction firm where he stole $620,000.
He transferred $48,000 of the stolen funds into a banking account he had opened just a few days prior that was in his real name.
Source: Bleeping Computer
Skowron was part of a cyber-gang that used banking malware to infect users. His duty was to transfer the stolen funds from the compromised accounts to his own, or to mules who would launder the money.
Skowron didn't use masking devices such as Tor, VPN or proxies in a few transactions and the banks were able to record his IP address. Authorities track it down to his home in Meredith Road, Worthing.
He also conducted a few man-in-the-middle attacks on companies that included a construction firm where he stole $620,000.
He transferred $48,000 of the stolen funds into a banking account he had opened just a few days prior that was in his real name.
Source: Bleeping Computer
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