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SWIFT warns of new attacks, Bangladesh Bank heist linked to Sony hack

16
May
2016

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SWIFT, the organization that provides banks with a secure network for sending and receiving information about financial transactions, has sent out a warning about a malware attack against another bank. They believe that its customers are facing “a highly adaptive campaign targeting banks’ payment endpoints.”

In the earlier case – the heist at Bangladesh’s central bank – the attackers compromised the bank’s environment, obtained valid operator credentials that allowed them to submit fraudulent SWIFT messages, and to hide evidence by removing some of the traces of the fraudulent messages.

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