London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested eight men in connection with a £1.3 million ($2.08 million) bank heist carried out with a remote-control device they had the brass to plug into a Barclays branch computer.
The hardware included a KVM (keyboard, video monitor and mouse) switch and a 3G dongle that enabled the crooks to slurp money from accounts, according to Met Police.
These are legitimate hardware setups: As the police explained, a KVM switch is used in business to enable remote work on computers.
Walking into a bank and pretending to be an IT guy to install such a device is, needless to say, a less legitimate prospect.
Here’s how the crooks pulled off the ruse, according to the Met Police statement:
A male purporting to be an IT engineer had gained access to the branch, falsely stating he was there to fix computers. He had then deployed the KVM device. This enabled the criminal group to remotely transfer monies to predetermined back accounts under the control of the criminal group....
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