Second Bank Hit By 'Sophisticated' Malware Attack, Says Swift (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader cites an article on The Guardian: Swift, the global financial messaging network that banks use to move billions of dollars every day, warned of a second malware attack similar to the one that led to February's $81 million cyberheist at the Bangladesh central bank. The second case targeted a commercial bank, Swift spokeswoman Natasha de Teran said, without naming it. It was not immediately clear how much money, if any, was stolen in the second attack. Swift said in a statement that the attackers exhibited a "deep and sophisticated knowledge of specific operational controls" at targeted banks and may have been aided by "malicious insiders or cyber attacks, or a combination of both." The organization, a Belgian co-operative owned by member banks, said that forensic experts believe the second case showed that the Bangladesh heist was not a single occurrence, "but part of a wider and highly adaptive campaign targeting banks."

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I will bet that they outsourced to India

[WindBourne]

Seriously, I will put money down that they had outsourced to India and was running Windows.
This is no different than the companies in the west that are being cracked over and over.
Nearly all of them had switched to Indian based outsourcing with the previous 2 years.
With most of that, it was having the Indians monitor the production environment and admin it.
Home Depot; Target; Neiman Marcus; DSW; etc. etc. etc. All had switched to Indian outsourcing within the previous 2 years.
And in each case, they were hiring ppl that were paid less than $10K / year. And how is India's best friend? RUSSIA.
To be fair, I would not blame the Indians for this. I blame the companies that will switch when it is so obvious that this low of pay difference makes it TRIVIAL to buy off any of the workers.