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Three Banks Lose Millions After Wire Transfer Switches Hacked
mask.of.sanity writes "Criminals have stolen millions from three unnamed U.S. banks by launching slow and stealthy denial of service attacks as a distraction before attacking wire payment switches. The switches manage and execute wire transfers and could have coughed up much more cash should the attackers have pressed on. RSA researcher Limor Kessem said, 'The service portal is down, the bank is losing money and reliability, and the security team is juggling the priorities of what to fix first. That's when the switch attack – which is very rare because those systems are not easily compromised [and require] high-privilege level in a more advanced persistent threat style case – takes place.'"
the way not a single fucking one of you read the article. All that happened here was a DDoS on some switch, and the bank, as corps usually do, are pulling monstorous figures of millions in "damage" due to temporary loss of service.
No accounts were "hacked"
No servers were breached.
No accounts were changed.
No money was transfered.
NOTHING was stolen.
Of course, all you idiots buying into the hype and hyping this article even MORE actually helps the banks get away with their "evil hackers" scare hysteria. Dumb fucks!!!
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