Reception against hacking

On May 7 of this year, the CHS news news about the investigation of a large-scale scam with credit cards done in the city in April 2010 is going on. The US Secret Service Bob Kirsted told reporters then that the specialists of the department for combating cybersechenism determined with the help of which “Trojan” completely theft of data on credit cards, but it has not yet been able to establish the location of the attackers. Kirsteed added that the same hacker program was applied when robbing buyers of the Target retail chain, due to which the head of the company was forced to resign.

And now the secret service (its competence includes such crime, equated with counterfeiting, for the struggle with which she was established at one time) announced the arrest of 30-year-old Russian citizen, Roman Valerievich Seleznev. It was he, according to US law enforcement agencies, that he was hacking computer networks of commercial companies, the theft of personal data of owners of payment cards and the subsequent resale of this information through the sites created by him specifically for this purpose.

"The harm done by this person and other transnational criminal communities of our national financial infrastructure is significant and it should not be underestimated," said the director of the secret service, Julia Pirson. US Minister of Internal Security Jay Johnson commented on the event as follows: "This important arrest sends a clear signal: despite the fact that transnational organized crime does not know state borders, the long hand of justice will continue to interfere with its actions and destroy these criminal organizations." The Federal District Prosecutor Jenny Darken, who will represent the accusation at the trial,turned to the hackers remaining free: "You will not hide thanks to remote access. We will betray you into the hands of justice."

The indictment against Seleznev was ready in March 2011. This means that the secret service followed his movements, waiting for the moment when he was within its reach.

The father of the arrested, the State Duma deputy from the LDPR Valery Seleznev first called the messages of the Western agencies "a monstrous lie and provocation", then stated that his son and his family are resting "on some islands that were not part of the jurisdiction of the United States" and that if he was in the United States, it means that he was stolen and delivered there by force. The Russian Foreign Ministry adheres to the same version, according to which Roman Seleznev was detained at the international airport of the capital of the Maldives of the Maldives, the city of Male, from where he was going to fly to Moscow.

The American press together reports that he was arrested on the Guam, with which Russia has been operating with a visa -free entry regime for up to 45 days. Guam is part of the United States on the rights of the "non -irradiated organized territory." What role in the arrest was played by the Maldives authorities, with whom the United States does not have an agreement on the mutual issuance of suspects is still unknown. From Guam Seleznev will be transported or already transported to Seattle, where the court will take place. In addition to Washington, he is eager to see in Nevada, where he is also awaiting criminal charges. In any case, the argument of the “abduction”, as shows cases of Viktor But and Konstantin Yaroshenko, to which the Foreign Ministry refers, will not have any meaning for the court. This is perfectly understood by deputy Seleznev, who claims that there is no need to wait for an impartial court from America: "I am afraid that now there will be such pressure that Kennedy killed and was even Levinsky’s monik. We all know what justice is in the United States."

In recent years, Russian hackers have become a tongue in the West. The “facets” at one time talked about the arrest in the USA, Great Britain and Ukraine members of one of these groups engaged in the “theft of identity” of bank customers. Currently, a resident of Anapa Evgeny Mikhailovich Bogachev is listed on the FBI website of the FBI number one, Russian citizen Alexander Sergeyevich Bobnev appears under number 8, for the help in the capture of which a reward of 50 thousand dollars is promised, at number 10 - a native of Damascus and a Russian citizen Andrei Nabilevich Tama - 50 thousand are also given for his “head”.

However, the theft of data from credit cards is not the worst. No further than July 2, The New York Times published an article that Russian hackers got to computer networks of the US and European energy sector. They act in the same way as Seleznev and his accomplices: they introduce the malicious "Malware" (Malware "into the system, after which they begin to give commands to the system through this Trojan. So far, there were no serious failures, but they are not excluded in the future. The phenomenon received the name "energetic bear" among specialists in cybercrime. It is believed that behind the hacker group committing these hacks are the authorities of Russia, promoting the interests of Gazprom and Rosneft.

It is possible that the "theft of identity" is a latrine of the same hackers. Despite the presence of the corresponding articles in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - 159.3 ("Fraud using payment cards") and 159.6 ("Fraud in the field of computer information") - crimes of this kind are pursued in Russia sluggishly. In the Russian sector of the Internet, hacker sites are represented in abundance: here are the “ school of hackers ”, the “ Academy of hackers ”, and “ everything for hacking , and much more. That would be what to do the Duma, and not adopt laws on blocking of ideologically non -contained network resources.