Cyber police exposed phishing thieves who stole two million hryvnias from more than a thousand Ukrainians
The attackers obtained citizens' bank card data through phishing links that copied the interface of online banking pages, ad platform sites, online stores, etc.
The participants of the two criminal groups were exposed by the officers of the Cyber Crime Control Department in the Kharkiv region together with the Main Investigation Department of the National Police and with the assistance of Monobank and PrivatBank security services.
One group brought together 13 people who created and administered a community in Telegram, where they posted instructions and phishing links for other members of the scam group.
Attackers in instant messengers sent links under the guise of proposals for making financial payments, receiving funds for the goods sold. Data entered by users on phishing sites automatically became known to those involved.
A similar scheme was implemented by three residents of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
According to operational data, at least a thousand people suffered from the illegal actions of both criminal groups. The total amount of damage caused to the victim is almost two million hryvnias.
National Police of Ukraine
