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Bank messaging network beefs up fight against fraud after accusations of lax security. Continue reading SWIFT hopes to thwart fraudsters with detection system in wake of bank heist
Banks face persistent, sophisticated and sustained cyberattacks from hackers looking to exploit the SWIFT messaging network, according to reports. Continue reading SWIFT Warns Banks Of More Cyberattacks
It’s like concrete winning a contest of building materials. Continue reading Good Ol’ C Tops the IEEE’s 2016 Programming Language Ranking
It doesn’t matter if you’re an ordinary user or an employee of a large financial organization. Whatever you do, don’t click on suspicious links or email attachments, and don’t provide sensitive personal or corporate information to someone you don’t kno… Continue reading Hackers abused SWIFT to steal $10 million from Ukrainian bank
Banks with security teams of just two people have to face up to the same kind of threats as their much larger counterparts. Continue reading How Small Banks Fend Off Hackers
Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack. Continue reading 12 more banks now being investigated over Bangladeshi SWIFT heist
Bangladesh is not the only bank that had become victim to the cyber heist. In fact, it appears to be just a part of the widespread cyber attack on global banking and financial sector by hackers who target the backbone of the world financial system, SWI… Continue reading Ecuador Bank Hacked — $12 Million Stolen in 3rd Attack on SWIFT System
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, … More → Continue reading SWIFT warns of new attacks, Bangladesh Bank heist linked to Sony hack
News of yet another attack involving a bank and SWIFT, the financial network used by thousands of banks to transfer funds, came to light Thursday. Continue reading SWIFT Warns of Second Bank Attack via PDF Malware
SWIFT, the global Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, warned on Thursday of a second malware attack similar to the Bangladesh central bank hack one that led to $81 million cyber heist.
In February, $81 Million cyberheist at the Bangladesh central bank was carried out by hacking into SWIFT, the global financial messaging system that thousands of banks and companies
Continue reading Second Bank hit by Malware attack similar to $81 Million Bangladesh Heist