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Hacked files suggest US National Security Agency penetrated Swift, Mideast banks – The Straits Times

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Hacked files suggest US National Security Agency penetrated Swift, Mideast banks
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The files, according to computer security analysts, also showed the NSA had found and exploited numerous vulnerabilities in a range of Microsoft Windows products widely used on computers around the world. Analysts generally accepted the files, which …
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Up to a dozen banks are reportedly investigating potential SWIFT breaches

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More banks have reportedly launched investigations into potential security breaches on their networks after hackers stole US$ 81 million from the Bangladesh central bank earlier this year through rogue SWIFT transfers.

Security firm FireEye, which was hired to investigate the Bangladesh bank attack, was also called in to look for possible compromises at up to 12 additional banks, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the investigations.

Most of the banks are from Southeast Asia but include banks in the Philippines and New Zealand, Bloomberg reported.

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SWIFT asks its customers to help it end a string of high-profile banking frauds

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Financial transaction network SWIFT called on its customers Friday to help it end a string of high-profile banking frauds perpetrated using its network.

The SWIFT network itself is still secure, it insisted in a letter to banks and financial institutions. However, some of its customers have suffered security breaches in their own infrastructure, allowing attackers to fraudulently authorize transactions and send them over the SWIFT network, it said.

That’s the best explanation so far for how authenticated instructions were sent from Bangladesh Bank to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of New York over the SWIFT network, ordering the transfer of almost US$ 1 billion. The Fed transferred around $ 101 million of that before identifying an anomaly in one of the instructions. Only $ 20 million of that has so far been recovered.

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