The global network of financial messages SWIFT has warned its customers about the recent “cyber incidents” in which attackers send fraudulent messages. About it reports Reuters.
As specified, the criminals were able to send false messages of the SWIFT system of the operating departments of financial institutions, with personal computers or workstations connected to SWIFT network.
In the warning sent out not named any affected by this scheme and does not mention about losses.
Also on Monday, April 25, SWIFT has released a security update for the software that banks use for network access.
On 9 March, the Central Bank of Bangladesh reported about the disappearance of $ 100 million. Close to the regulator’s sources reported that the stolen money was transferred to the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
On 15 March, the head of the Central Bank of Atiur Rahman left his post due to a hacker attack. It was noted that after the incident, Rahman had not informed the government about the missing money. Minister of Finance Abul Maal Abdul muheet said that he learned about the attack from the Newspapers a month after the theft.
It turned out that the reason for the vulnerability of the regulator became cheap routers. According to investigators, the computers of the Central Bank connected to SWIFT, working with devices worth about $ 10. In addition, the regulator did not use a firewall, that is, a system of filtering Internet content and monitoring.
