00:00Did you know hackers once robbed banks by becoming their employees? Not by
00:03breaking in. By moving in. Around 2013, a gang later called Carbonac began sending
00:09emails to bank workers. One infected attachment was all it took. Then they
00:13waited. For months, they watched. They recorded the screens of bank employees.
00:18They learned the routines. They learned which buttons got pressed and when.
00:23Kaspersky researchers said the gang spent roughly two to four months inside
00:26each bank. Then they acted and every move looked normal. They transferred money
00:30using the same steps real staff used. They inflated account balances then took
00:35the difference. And they told ATMs to spit out cash at exact times while couriers
00:40stood waiting. No alarms. No broken locks. Kaspersky made it public in 2015. It
00:46reported up to 100 banks hit. Later, Europol set over 100 banks in 40 countries.
00:52Losses were estimated at hundreds of millions to over a billion dollars and
00:56sources differ. In 2018, Spanish police arrested a man Europol called the gang's
01:01leader. The lesson was brutal. Banks guarded the front door. But the thieves were
01:05already inside, looking exactly like everyone else. Trust, by itself, is not security.
