This is The Way to Rob a Bank

Not that I would ever advocate criminal activity- but if you are going to do it, don’t resort to a gun, a mask and a stick-up note. Use a keylogger and remote access to a PC instead. They might have gotten away with it too, if not for an alert teller.

From the AP here:

A gang of Swedish criminals was seconds away from completing a digital bank heist when an alert employee literally pulled the plug on their brazen scam.

The would be bank robbers had placed “advanced technical equipment” under the employee’s desk that allowed them to take control of his computer remotely. The employee discovered the device shortly after he realized his computer had started an operation to transfer “millions” from the bank into another account.

“By pulling out the cable to the device, the employee managed to stop the intended transfer at the last second,” he said.

The foiled heist happened in August at a bank north of Stockholm, police said. They announced it only Wednesday after seven suspects, all from the Stockholm region, were arrested this week while allegedly preparing another heist.

Cops didn’t say what it was, but it could have very easily been a simple thumb drive with a trojan file set to autoplay. Even a CDRom given away at a trade show could contain malware set to autoplay on insertion.