From the actions of a 17-year-old hacker from Grodno affected more than 120 people, the damage amounted to about 150 thousand

Employees of the Department for combating cybercrime in Brest region, together with investigators, identified a 17-year-old resident of Grodno, who developed malicious software. A criminal case has been opened, sb.by reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.

Operatives found out that by order of a friend, the defendant created a Mamont Trojan for the Android operating system. He distributed it through messengers in the form of files with the names “you are in the photo” or “video of an accident” and other baits that provoked users to open the attachment.

- The program allowed to bypass the protection mechanisms of smartphones, stealing SMS, collecting information about installed applications and transferring data to remote servers. The information obtained was used by attackers to steal money from citizens’ bank accounts, said Oleg Koltunevich, deputy head of the Criminal Code of the Internal Affairs Department of the Brest region.

More than 120 victims have been identified so far. The amount of damage was about 150 thousand in equivalent. Investigators opened a criminal case on the fact of development, use, distribution or sale of malicious computer programs. Interior Ministry: 12 phishing sites of fraudsters blocked in Belarus and operations on 48 accounts suspended