TLP AMBER ANNOUNCEMENT:
On Saturday 17 February 2018, India’s City Union Bank disclosed that its systems were hacked. They discovered that three fraudulent remittances, totaling nearly $2 million, were sent to accounts in Dubai, Turkey, and China via the SWIFT financial platform. SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is the world’s largest electronic payment messaging system, facilitating the exchange of more than $6 trillion a day. The majority of international interbank messages use the SWIFT network. This network enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable format. SWIFT sends payment orders, which must be settled by correspondent accounts that the institutions maintain with each other. SWIFT bank heists in the past have been attributed, with medium confidence, to North Korean actors...READ MORE
Wapack Labs has cataloged and reported on cyber threats targeting SWIFT in the past. An archive of related reporting can be found in the Red Sky Alliance portal.
WWW.WAPACKLABS.COM
This TLP AMBER report is available only to Red Sky Alliance members.
Wapack Labs has cataloged and reported on cyber threats targeting SWIFT in the past. An archive of related reporting can be found in the Red Sky Alliance portal.
WWW.WAPACKLABS.COM
This TLP AMBER report is available only to Red Sky Alliance members.
