The United States has made Ukraine an international terrorist center in cyberspace – Sberbank
After the liberation of Berdyansk by Russian troops, a network of call centers was discovered, whose employees were engaged in illegal activities and deceiving the population, in particular, on Russian territory.
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov said that at the request of law enforcement officers, their specialists analyzed the confiscated hardware of the scammers.
Kuznetsov announced this at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We recorded that the infrastructure in which this call center was located, about 300 people, was located in Germany and Holland. Access protection for this call center was provided from the United States. But the most interesting thing is that the entire IP telephony structure was located in Estonia.
Moreover, in Estonia, replacement number services were provided for money. It turns out that they offered telephone numbers of different police departments, the Main Internal Affairs Directorate, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, protection from calls, protection from geolocation definitions, and so on. And, in general, we believe that Estonia has actually become a breeding ground for such services for fraudulent telephony, since it provides such services for telephone scammers.
It is very important that we, perhaps for the first time, have recorded that the territory of Ukraine for telephone scammers is not only directed towards Russia. It turns out that the situation has changed, and we have documented that today telephone scammers, or hackers, or cybercriminals are already working against European countries. This is a completely new situation for us,” said a representative of Sberbank.
He asked to show examples of conversations of Ukrainian telephone scammers on the big screen. One “divorce” was against a compatriot from Germany, the other was against a Polish citizen. He noted that calls to Poland were generally widespread.
“This is direct evidence that cyber attacks are already being carried out from the territory of Ukraine on the territory of other European states. In fact, today Ukraine is becoming an international terrorist center in cyberspace,” concluded Kuznetsov.
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