Simple KVM switch used to steal $2.1m
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 04/25/2014 11:34 AM
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The third attempt to steal bank funds ended in a massive arrest of the perpetrators.
The first case was when gang member Darius Boldor, 34 posed as an IT tech and attached a KVM switch to a back computer at Barclays branch in Swiss Cottage, London. That resulted in a loss of $2.1m. That was in April of 2013.
The second case, Dean Outram, 32, used the same technique to plant a bug on computers in a Lewisham branch of Barclay. That resulted in a loss of £90,000. That was the following September.
The third attempt was the gangs undoing. Outram bluffed his way into a Surrey Quays branch of Santander in south east London to install another KVM switch. According to a Scotland Yard statement "Metropolitan Police Service detectives supported by Territorial Support Group officers raided an address in Kingsley Avenue, Hounslow, where Mullins-Abudu, Qureshi and eight others were arrested. Police recovered computers that were logged into Santander bank accounts, but no money was stolen."
During their investigation, police found that the gang was using "500 high-value bank and credit cards that had been either stolen or intercepted, to purchase Rolex watches worth up to £30,000 each, high-value jewellery and electrical equipment such as Apple Mac computers and iPads".
Five members of the gang were put behind bars. The full list of convictions, with jail time adding up to 24 years in total, can be found here.
The first case was when gang member Darius Boldor, 34 posed as an IT tech and attached a KVM switch to a back computer at Barclays branch in Swiss Cottage, London. That resulted in a loss of $2.1m. That was in April of 2013.
The second case, Dean Outram, 32, used the same technique to plant a bug on computers in a Lewisham branch of Barclay. That resulted in a loss of £90,000. That was the following September.
The third attempt was the gangs undoing. Outram bluffed his way into a Surrey Quays branch of Santander in south east London to install another KVM switch. According to a Scotland Yard statement "Metropolitan Police Service detectives supported by Territorial Support Group officers raided an address in Kingsley Avenue, Hounslow, where Mullins-Abudu, Qureshi and eight others were arrested. Police recovered computers that were logged into Santander bank accounts, but no money was stolen."
During their investigation, police found that the gang was using "500 high-value bank and credit cards that had been either stolen or intercepted, to purchase Rolex watches worth up to £30,000 each, high-value jewellery and electrical equipment such as Apple Mac computers and iPads".
Five members of the gang were put behind bars. The full list of convictions, with jail time adding up to 24 years in total, can be found here.
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