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  • Reuters: SWIFT Discovers Cyber Theft Attempts Against Member Banks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: SWIFT Discovers Cyber Theft Attempts Against Member Banks

    The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication has detected cyber theft attempts against its member banks that resulted in some successful attacks, Reuters reported Wednesday. Jim Finkle writes a SWIFT letter to clients stated the hacking attempts have been discovered since June – after SWIFT gave customers its latest update on cyber attacks. “Customers’ environments have been compromised, and subsequent attempts (were) made to send […] More

  • SWIFT Unveils Security Team, Engages BAE & Fox-IT to Support Financial Community Investigations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SWIFT Unveils Security Team, Engages BAE & Fox-IT to Support Financial Community Investigations

    The worldwide cooperative Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication has employed the help of BAE Systems and Fox-IT and established a team of information technology and cyber experts to support security investigations within SWIFT’s global user community. SWIFT said Monday its new Customer Security Intelligence team will work alongside BAE and Fox-IT to foster customer information exchanges in support of SWIFT’s Customer […] More

  • Symantec: SWIFT Financial Messaging Network Hack Linked to Sony, Asian Bank Attacks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec: SWIFT Financial Messaging Network Hack Linked to Sony, Asian Bank Attacks

    A Symantec analysis has found that malware used by hackers to steal money from Bangladesh’s central bank via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication system is similar to malware that affected a Philippine bank in October, Reuters reported Friday. Dustin Volz writes the security company also linked the Bangladesh Bank heist to an attempted SWIFT wire fraud on a Vietnam-based commercial bank and a […] More

  • BAE Systems: Cyber Attack Against Bangladesh Bank Linked to 2014 Sony Hack - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems: Cyber Attack Against Bangladesh Bank Linked to 2014 Sony Hack

    A report by BAE Systems has found that the cyber attack launched against the central bank of Bangladesh is associated with the data breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, Reuters reported Friday. Jim Finkle and Sanjeev Miglani write BAE’s report says the malware used to steal $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New […] More