(Bloomberg) -- A hacker group has stolen as much as $1 billionfrom banks and other financial companies worldwide since 2013 in an“unprecedented cyber-robbery,” according to computer security firmKaspersky Lab.
The gang targeted as many as 100 banks, e-payment systems andother financial institutions in 30 countries including the U.S,China and European nations, stealing as much as $10 million in eachraid, Kaspersky Lab, Russia’s largest maker of antivirus software,said in a report. The Carbanak gang members came from Russia,China, Ukraine and other parts of Europe, and they are stillactive, it said.
“These bank heists were surprising because it made no differenceto the criminals what software the banks were using,” said SergeyGolovanov, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s globalresearch and analysis team. “It was a very slick and professionalcyber-robbery.”
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