The Federal Police (PF) launched this Tuesday morning (28) an operation against a group identified as responsible for defrauding more than R$ 4.5 million from Caixa Econômica Federal bank accounts in November 2022.
The investigations began based on information provided by Caixa Econômica Federal’s National Security Center and, according to the PF, point out that the suspects used privileged access and diverted amounts from Caixa’s digital social accounts, from which they were unduly withdrawn.
The individuals, targets of the warrants, provided computer services to agencies in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro and took advantage of their traffic and their access credentials to obtain privileged access for restricted use.
The investigation pointed out that privileged accesses were used to obtain passwords and access profiles of other Caixa employees, which served to improperly transfer values to digital accounts linked to social projects and allow criminals to withdraw them.
The participation of a hacker already involved in other cyber attacks on bank accounts, who is on the run, was identified.
In the action, federal police officers serve a preventive arrest warrant and three search and seizure warrants, in the neighborhoods of Jacarepaguá, in Rio de Janeiro, Miguel Couto, in Nova Iguaçu (RJ), and Icaraí, in Niterói (RJ).
The action is yet another operation stemming from the Tentacles Task Force and had the partnership of the Coordination for Repression of Electronic Banking Frauds (CBAN), the newly created Directorate to Combat Cyber Crimes of the Federal Police, of the PF of Rio.
The crimes investigated include embezzlement, violation of functional secrecy, invasion of a computer device and aggravated theft, whose sum penalties can exceed 30 years in prison.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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