Malware Bank Attacks May Be Linked To Sony Pictures Hack (blogspot.fr)

itwbennett writes: Researchers at BAE Systems have found a long chain of coding coincidences linking attempted fraud over the SWIFT network to the 2014 Sony Pictures hack. "The overlaps between these samples provide strong links for the same coder being behind the recent bank heist cases and a wider known campaign stretching back almost a decade," the researchers concluded. But it's still anybody's guess who's behind all these attacks: in Bangladesh, government officials are pointing the finger at SWIFT technicians who worked on the central bank's network last year, while the FBI says that attack was an inside job -- but blames the North Koreans for the Sony hack.
Sunday a bank in Vietnam revealed that it had also identified and blocked a $1.13 million fraud attempt, saying that a third-party service it used to connect to SWIFT's global money transfers system may have been attacked by hackers.

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Re:Malware Korean bank heist attack Bangladesh fra

[bloodhawk]

At some point you are at the mercy of those running the system. Operating System is irrelevant, it is the programs, the auditing and alerting that run on the system. Given how many people have been caught over the last hundred years doing similar scams from inside banks with fake accounts etc (and who knows how many more that got away with it or were hushed up) this is a people and processes problem in that as it was an insider with all the access, they needed to catch it faster as in the end it is near impossible to completely prevent an insider from abusing trust.