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Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2018
APT38 is behind financially motivated attacks carried out by North Korea

Security experts from FireEye published a report on the activity of financially motivated threat actors, tracked as APT38, linked to the North Korean government. The attacks aimed at financial institutions, FireEye estimates APT38 has stolen at least a hundred million dollars from banks worldwide. APT38 appears to be a North Korea-linked group separate from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2018
According to the experts, North Korea is behind the SWIFT attacks in Latin America

SWIFT hackers continue to target banks worldwide, the last string of attacks hit financial institutions across Latin America. According to three people with knowledge of the matter cited by Cyberscoop the attacks were carried by North Korea-linked APT groups that targeted also other banks Recent attacks hit Mexico’s Bancomext and Chile’s Bank of Chile, in both cases the attackers used a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2018
Mexican central bank confirmed that SWIFT hackers stole millions of dollars from Mexican Banks

The head of the Mexican central bank, Alejandro Diaz de Leon announced this week that hackers were involved in shadowy transfers of between $18 million and $20 million. Mexican central bank is the last victim of the SWIFT hackers, officials at the bank confirmed this week that hackers hit the payments system and stole millions […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2018
Philippine central bank has thrown an alert after SWIFT hackers hit Malaysia central bank

The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the SWIFT servers at the Malaysian central bank. The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the Malaysian central bank. According to Malaysian governor, the hackers attempted to steal money through fraudulent wire […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2018
City Union Bank is the last victim of a cyber attack that used SWIFT to transfer funds

The Indian bank Kumbakonam-based City Union Bank announced that cyber criminals compromised its systems and transferred a total of US$1.8 million. During the weekend, the Russian central bank revealed a new attack against the SWIFT system, unknown hackers have stolen 339.5 million roubles (roughly $6 million) from a Russian bank last year. Even if the SWIFT international bank […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2018
Unknown hackers stole $6 million from a Russian bank via SWIFT system last year

A new attack against the SWIFT system made the headlines again, unknown hackers have stolen 339.5 million roubles (roughly $6 million) from a Russian bank last year. The news of the attack against the international payments messaging system was reported on Friday by the Russian central bank, this is the last incident of a long string […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2017
The NIC Asia Bank is the last victim of the SWIFT hackers

The NIC Asia Bank requested the support of the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police to track down the crooks who hacked the SWIFT server. Once again hackers targeted SWIFT systems to steal money from a financial institution. The victim is the NIC Asia Bank that once discovered illegal fund transfer with its SWIFT server requested support from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2017
Microsoft says it has fixed exploits leaked by Shadow Brokers in March

Microsoft determined that most of the flaws exploited by the tools in the dump released by Shadow Brokers yesterday were patched in March. Yesterday the Shadow Brokers hacker group has released a new portion of the alleged archive of the NSA containing hacking tools and exploits. The group released a 117.9 MB encrypted dump containing […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2017
Shadows Brokers released another archive that suggests NSA compromised a SWIFT system

The Shadow Brokers group released a 117.9 MB encrypted dump containing documents that suggest NSA hacker SWIFT system in the Middle East. Last week, the notorious Shadow Brokers hackers group that claimed to have stolen the hacking tools and exploits from the NSA has leaked the password for an encrypted cache of Unix hacking tools […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2016
Odinaff Trojan behind financial attacks mostly in Turkey

Akbank, one of the largest Turkish banks seems to be the latest victim of the Odinaff trojan, a threat similar to the Carbanak malware. Odinaff; a malware similar to Carbanak, has been targeting financial institutions around the world since the beginning of the year. “Since January 2016, discreet campaigns involving malware called Trojan.Odinaff have targeted a number […]

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