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Recent malware attacks on Polish banks tied to wider hacking campaign

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Feb

2017

Malware attacks that recently put the Polish banking sector on alert were part of a larger campaign that targeted financial organizations from more than 30 countries. Researchers from Symantec and BAE Systems linked the malware used in the recently discovered Polish attack to similar attacks that have taken place since October in other countries. There […]

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Attackers use hacked home routers to hit Russia’s 5 largest banks

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Dec

2016

Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia. The attacks occurred on Monday, Dec. 5, and were detected and mitigated by Rostelecom, Russia’s state-owned telecommunications company. The attacks peaked at 3.2 million packets per second (Mpps) and the longest attack lasted […]

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After heists, bank transaction service adds new security feature

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Sep

2016

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the banking transactions messaging service that hackers used to steal more than $80 million from the central bank of Bangladesh, is adding a new fraud protection system. Starting in December, the network will send its member banks summaries of their communications, with a separate summary flagging suspicious […]

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