[AusNOG] Fwd: Russia: Investigation Against Banks Launched

[Richard Pruss]

This is just astounding if true. Looks as if Russian government thinks some real banks are involved in the "Russian Business Network" that Cecil Goldstein educated us about at Ausnog meeting.

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> Date: 17 November 2010 12:34:05 AM AEST
> Subject: Russia: Investigation Against Banks Launched
> Source: Economics/Finance STRATFOR Feed
> Author: STRATFOR
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> The Russian Financial Monitoring Service is investigating the activities of some of the country’s banks and financial institutions for possible involvement in hacker attacks in the United States, agency chief Yuri Chikhankin said at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reported Nov. 16. The investigation comes after an incident in mid-October in which a U.S. court found two Russian citizens — who were members of a gang using a version of the Zeus Trojan virus — guilty of staging a cyber attack on banks and stealing their money.
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