A convicted cybercriminal is masterminding an audacious attempt to steal up to £2 million ($2,655,284) in cryptocurrency by directing accomplices from behind bars using remote access software and home invasions.
The plot blended high-tech elements with old-fashioned housebreaking as Robert Barr directed the scheme from HMP Edinburgh while serving a prior sentence, says the sentencing statement.
Barr used an illicit phone to identify targets, plan surveillance and instruct accomplices to gain entry so he could remotely control victims’ computers with AnyDesk software and drain hardware wallets.
Say, Lord Cubie at the High Court in Glasgow,
“This was a crime which married 21st-century computer sophistication with old-fashioned housebreaking in an audacious attempt to steal cryptocurrency worth up to 2 million pounds. It was apparently devised and directed from a prison cell and was only frustrated because the victims had the sense not to open their front door at 11.30 pm to unknown men, dressed in dark clothing with their faces obscured.”
Barr is described as the head of the organised crime group and a “sophisticated cybercriminal with the ability to orchestrate a level of criminality rarely seen within mainstream investigations,” the judge added.
One text message from Barr read: “I’m going to send u a website for the boys to make him go on. If they need, phone me on Telegram. I can speak to them in house keep them right. When they’re in his house gonna need get him on his PC fast.”
Another exchange referenced the earlier raid: “I had his house robbed a few months ago by boys in here.”
During the failed April attempt, one intruder asked: “Is that a camera right in front of me?”
Barr received eight years in prison, with accomplices Sean Favier getting four years and Iain Doyle five years after all three pleaded guilty to involvement in serious organized crime, says the court.
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A convicted cybercriminal serving time in Scotland orchestrated an attempted £2 million cryptocurrency heist by directing accomplices to break into victims’ homes and install remote access software, but the plot was foiled; he received an 8-year sentence while two others got 4 and 5 years.
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