SWIFT has informed customers about new hacker hacking – RBC

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In June this year, the banks belonging to the SWIFT system, are subject to hacker attacks, said in a letter to SWIFT. According to them, some clients have lost money

The International Interbank SWIFT data system informed about new hacking attacks on banks, Reuters reported with

reference to the private letter of the system to its customers. The letter says that the break-in attempts were made in June. Some of them were successful

«Client systems have been undermined, and further attempts were made to send the fraudulent payment instructions”, -. The document says. The authors emphasize that the present threat – “persistent, adaptable and sophisticated»

From SWIFT letter that customers of a number of banks lost money.. However, exactly how much was stolen, it is not specified. The letter does not specify any of the banks in question. Only it notes that successful attacks have been banks that differ in both size and location.

The official representative of the information transmission system has refused to tell the details of the incident, noting that the company does not discuss the affairs of individual customers.

In early March, it became known about a large withdrawal of funds of the Central Bank of Bangladesh. Attackers tried to withdraw $ 951 million. Most of the operations were blocked, but $ 81 million was transferred to accounts in the Philippines.

In June, it was reported that investigators suspected of involvement in the theft of $ 81 million from the account of the Central Bank of Bangladesh hackers from Russia, Moldova and Kazakhstan. That is the conclusion they reached after analyzing the malware used during the attacks on 12 Asian banks, which began last year.