USA: Second hacker attack made in the international banking network
Hackers managed to access the Swift interbank messaging system, which is considered yperasfales and used for the transfer of billions of dollars a day, a seemingly second electronic attack of this kind is, according to US media.
According to a letter prepared by Swift (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) to send today to its users, the methods now used by hackers bear similarities to electronic attack that allowed in February to some criminals embezzled USD 81 million from an account of central Bank of Bangladesh in the Federal Reserve (the US central bank) in New York.
This time, the hackers were targeting a commercial bank, whose name has not specified the Swift, and managed to steal the codes to send, via Swift, messages in the name of the bank.
This attack shows that really made an effort to find access to this system is essential for the functioning of the international financial world, according to the text that is preparing to release the Swift, which allege today the American newspaper New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
In February, messages indicating that they came from the Bangladesh Bank gave instruction to transfer to different accounts in the Philippines $ 81 million from the account of the US central bank.
The FBI suspects that the criminals who did the attack in February were partners from within, wrote Tuesday the Wall Street Journal.
On the same day, senior representatives of the Federal Reserve in New York, the Bangladesh Bank and Swift met in Basel to discuss for this kyvernoapati.
The methods used by hackers in both cases "clearly shows a deep and advanced knowledge of functions such banks that were targeted," according to the letter of Swift, alleged by US newspapers.
Hackers managed to access the Swift interbank messaging system, which is considered yperasfales and used for the transfer of billions of dollars a day, a seemingly second electronic attack of this kind is, according to US media.
According to a letter prepared by Swift (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) to send today to its users, the methods now used by hackers bear similarities to electronic attack that allowed in February to some criminals embezzled USD 81 million from an account of central Bank of Bangladesh in the Federal Reserve (the US central bank) in New York.
This time, the hackers were targeting a commercial bank, whose name has not specified the Swift, and managed to steal the codes to send, via Swift, messages in the name of the bank.
This attack shows that really made an effort to find access to this system is essential for the functioning of the international financial world, according to the text that is preparing to release the Swift, which allege today the American newspaper New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
In February, messages indicating that they came from the Bangladesh Bank gave instruction to transfer to different accounts in the Philippines $ 81 million from the account of the US central bank.
The FBI suspects that the criminals who did the attack in February were partners from within, wrote Tuesday the Wall Street Journal.
On the same day, senior representatives of the Federal Reserve in New York, the Bangladesh Bank and Swift met in Basel to discuss for this kyvernoapati.
The methods used by hackers in both cases "clearly shows a deep and advanced knowledge of functions such banks that were targeted," according to the letter of Swift, alleged by US newspapers.
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