The two cases happened in the towns of Santa Isabel and Colonia Barón. How cybercriminals operated.
Two municipalities in La Pampa had their bank accounts hacked on the same day and there is alarm in the Justice provincial in the face of repetitive events where Cyber criminals stole millions of pesos.
The two cases occurred in the municipalities of Santa Isabel and Colonia Barón where officials explain that on Friday, October 25, they received a pop-up window asking them to install a security plugin called “Trusteer Rapptor.”
Attorney General Armando Agüero, of the II and IV Constituencies, clarified that on these occasions the employees pressed the “ok” option in said window and that caused “a hacker to enter the system and make bank transfers without any consent.”
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La Pampa: the accounts of two municipalities were hacked and millions of pesos were stolen
In the town of Saint Elizabeth a possible transfer of $10 millionwhich caused the municipal accountant to block the accounts in order to avoid the possible criminal maneuver.
About Baron Colonythe situation was even worse since in this case they managed to steal more than $24 million in two operations.
For what happened in Saint Elizabeth A case was opened, which was left in the hands of the prosecutor María Nemesiowho classified the case as an attempted fraud.
In the case of Baron Colonythe complaint was only made last Monday, October 19 and the case was in charge of the Economic Crimes Prosecutor’s Office of the Second Judicial District.
According to what was reported by the media The Arena, They had been receiving this notification for three months.
Source: Ambito
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