They identified the alleged perpetrators of cyber-financial attacks that caused millions of losses in Mexico.

The attack was fast and accurate. Various the banks They detected unauthorized transfers, for millions of pesos, through 150 accounts created for this purpose. In May 2018 authorities acknowledged that there was an "unprecedented" cyberattack in Mexico.

One of the attacks was aimed Electronic Payment Banking System (PIPES). through which thousands of transfers between banks are made each day.

The The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico has already identified the alleged perpetrators of cyber attacks.

According to the information of the site Political animalIt was the Cyber ​​Intelligence and Technological Operations Unit responsible for discovery.

The unit is an intelligence group from Criminal Investigation Agency of the Office of the Prosecutor, consisting of experts in investigating computer crimes.

according to Marcos Arturo Rosales García, Chief of the unit, his team "identified the malicious code used to allocate SPEI system transactions, it was basically the affected platform in all events ".

The official explained that They are very clear about how the attack was conducted and there are data that indicate the possible perpetrators.

Criminals took advantage of the vulnerabilities of the computer systems to introduce malware generating SPEI transfer orders to created accounts for the same purpose of completing the illegal transaction.

Malicious codes were already hosted in the banking network, badured the manager, who ruled that the attack was at the origin of the intermediate companies that operate the system SPEI.

This was at the news In point, trained by Denisse Maerker, where it was revealed that the money from the operation had been transferred to 150 bank accounts, Of which 80% were opened to materialize the fraud.

Rosales García badured that behind the attack were well-organized groups with multidisciplinary profiles that included not only pirates.

Although the prosecutor's office claimed that the losses amounted to 500 million pesos, the official stated that he "black figure" that financial institutions did not want to specify avoid adverse publicity

Rosales García emphasized, as we have said since last year, that attacks did not affect users or customers of banks, since it is the institutions that absorbed the loss.