DBBL ATM hacking US company NCR officials summoned
The Detective Branch of police has summoned United States-based NCR Corporation officials from India over the latest hacking of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited.
DB additional deputy commissioner Shahidur Rahman told New Age on Monday that NCR representatives from India were likely to visit them on June 18.
He also said that they formed a team of IT experts to get technical supports in the investigation into the hacking by which Ukrainian hackers stole at least Tk 15 lakh from nine ATM booths of the bank at places in the capital since May 30.
The team includes experts from Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Computer Council and other police agencies, he added.
DB investigators said that they collected the image of a few ATM boots for cyber forensic.
They said that they were not getting enough information from the bank and it became difficult to estimate the amount stolen from the cashpoints but so far the bank identified nine cashpoints from where money was stolen.
The investigators were not sure how many Ukrainians were involved in the bank heist although they identified seven Ukrainians and arrested six of them on June 1.
They said that the seven Ukrainian suspects arrived in Dhaka on a seven-day tourist visa on May 30 and were scheduled to travel to India on June 6.
‘We have written to the civil aviation authorities and the immigration authorities to get details about their arrival and to check how many of them arrived in Dhaka,’ said Shahidur Rahman.
The investigators said that Technomedia Limited chief executive officer Joshoda Jibon Deb Nath imported the cashpoints for the bank as an authorised dealer of NCR.
Joshoda could not be reached immediately but according to the website of Technomedia Limited, it used to supply cashpoints to 20 leading banks in Bangladesh.
Dutch-Bangla Bank deputy managing director Abul Kashem Mohammad Shirin blamed the cashpoints for the hacking.
Another investigator said NCR cashpoints used by other banks might also be hacked.
An executive director of the Bangladesh Bank said that they held two meeting with the top officials and IT experts of different banks before June 4 and none but DBBL complained about fraudulences.
In 2016, the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate launched an investigation into cashpoint imports and purchases following a series of cashpoint frauds in February 6-12, 2016.
The directorate in its investigation found 13 suppliers imported 9,211 cashpoints and Technomedia alone imported 4,387 machines, 3,245 of which were for Dutch-Bangla Bank.
On June 2, Dutch-Bangla Bank head of alternate delivery channel Mashiur Rahman filed the case accusing seven Ukrainians and the Criminal Investigation Department’s organised crime unit launched the investigation.
North Korean Hidden Cobra has allegedly injected ‘never-before-seen spyware’ in the Dutch-Bangla Bank security system in the past week and at least seven Ukrainians arrived in Bangladesh to collect money from the bank’s ATM booths, said CID special superintendent Mollah Nazrul Islam.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
