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The Examination of the Seized Equipment of the Lurk Group did not Reveal the Fact of an Attack on the US Government

 

A law enforcement source said that the examination of the equipment seized from the members of the Lurk hacker group did not reveal traces of attacks on the servers of the American government. During the court session, hacker Konstantin Kozlovsky, who is being held as one of the defendants in the case of the Lurk hacker group, declared his involvement in hacking the servers of the Democratic Party of the USA, as well as in hacking Hillary Clinton's mail. 

However, the examination showed that this is not the case. "The examination was carried out by the security forces together with the leading companies in the field of information security in Russia, all seized equipment, media, communications were checked. No evidence of attacks on the U.S. government was found. Also, the group members did not discuss it in the seized correspondence," the source said. 

He added that the investigation did not establish a connection between Kozlovsky and any FSB officers. "If you follow his statements, they always follow the high-profile hacking topics in the media, to which he is trying to link his criminal case: first it was Russian interference in the US elections, then, when information about the arrest of employees of the FSB Information Security Center appeared in the media, he also mentioned it. 

Even in the list of those involved in the attack on American information resources, published by the US Department of Justice, there is neither Kozlovsky himself nor other members of the Lurk group," the source explained. 

The detention of a group of Lurk hackers became known on June 1, 2016. There are 22 people in the dock. According to investigators, the participants of the hacker group stole 1 billion 264 million rubles (16.7 million dollars) from commercial companies and banks. 

They also hacked the network of Yekaterinburg Koltsovo airport and copied information from servers. It should be noted that Kozlovsky is not the first to try on the role of a hacker of the servers of the Democratic Party. Previously, a hacker with the nickname Guccifer 2.0 took responsibility for hacking. The user called himself a Romanian hacker, but spoke Romanian with machine translation errors.
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Criminal Case Filed Against Hackers For Hacking Koltsovo Airport Database And Stealing Money From Banks


Two residents of the city Yekaterinburg are in custody for stealing money from several bank accounts and hacking into Database of Koltsovo international airport(Yekaterinburg, Russia).

Authorities found out that Cyber criminals Konstantin Melnik and Igor Makovkin created a virus through which they got access to the accounts of Bank customers.

Hackers stole 1.2 billion rubles (about 18 million USD) from their cards. In addition, hackers infected the computers of Yekaterinburg airport "Koltsovo" with malicious programs and got access to the air harbor database. The airport could not say the amount of the company's losses.

It is important to note that the hacker group was called Lurk and consisted of 24 members. Igor is one of the organizers, and Konstantin is his active participant.

The group of hackers successfully worked for five years, as it was difficult to detect the virus. The virus was self-removing and left no traces after gaining access to the accounts.

Specialists of Kaspersky Lab helped to find cyber criminals. They identified the virus in corporate networks with Sberbank's programmers.

According to some sources, the hacker group Lurk probably stole more than 124 million rubles (about 1.9 million USD) from the Bank accounts of members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, holding senior positions in the party.

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Group "Lurk" who claims to have hacked into Hillary Clinton's emails was also hacking into LPDR members' accounts


Konstantin Kozlovsky, 30 Year old, one of the leaders of the Russian hacking group called "Lurk", who claimed to have hacked into Hillary Clinton's emails, also said to have stolen money from several prominent members of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia(LPDR), according to the local media znak.com

According to the documents given by one of the defense lawyers, the group stole 4 million RUB (4.3 million INR) from Vladimir Zhirinovsky, , 99 million RUB (107 million INR) from Igor Lebedev( son of Vladimir Zhirinovsky), and 1.7 million EUR (135 million INR) from Vadim Dengin.

The group was detained by the FSB in June 2016, accused of performing cyber attacks on Russian Banks and stole about 3 billion RUB (3.2 billion INR).

In 2017, Kozlovsky took responsibility for hacking into the Hillary Clinton's Email accounts, servers of National Committee of the Democratic Party of the United States and Military Enterprises of the United States.

He claimed that he was recruited by FSB in 2008 and done various cyber attacks for a long time. He also mentioned that his supervisor was FSB major Dmitry Dokuchaev.

"At the end of December 2017, the media reported that Dokuchaev, as well as a number of FSB officers, including former head of the second directorate of the FSB Information Security Center, Sergei Mikhailov , themselves fell under investigation in connection with the leakage of information about hacker hacking of the US Democratic Party servers." The local media reports.

However, representatives of the Ural divisions of the FSB expressed confidence that all the statements on behalf of Kozlovsky are nothing more than an "attempt to draw attention to his criminal case" and, possibly to ask political asylum later.
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