They steal $ 12 million to a bank in Ecuador in a new case of hacking the SWIFT system – Gizmodo in Spanish

In February, some hackers managed to steal $ 81 million to the Bank Central Bangladesh through the SWIFT system (and a misspelling prevented from stealing 870 million increase). Later, a Vietnamese bank reported a similar case-and has now been the same in Ecuador

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the robbery Banco del Austro took place more than 15 months ago, but since the Ecuadorian entity say they had not noticed until now. Again, hackers served fraudulent messages in the SWIFT system to move 12 million to various banks around the world. $ 9 million went to 23 accounts in Hong Kong and 3 million left ended up in Dubai and other parts of the world.

Banco del Austro has filed a lawsuit against another bank, the US Wells Fargo, which he ordered most of the transfers (worth $ 9 million). The thieves used the credentials of the employees of Wells Fargo in the SWIFT global system to transfer money to their own accounts abroad.

In the famous case of Bangladesh, police blamed the theft to the use of a switches -only sleazy cost 10 dollars in the bank’s computer network connected to the SWIFT system. It was later learned that hackers had injected with a malware on the local network (evtdiag.exe) with which they could access the SWIFT database and manipulate records to conceal transfers.

More than 9,000 financial corporations use SWIFT as interbank messaging system. The cooperative that controls it has warned banks fraud cases and has provided a software update to look unaffected by the malware . But they say the vulnerability that allows the attack is not in the SWIFT system but local security systems of banks that have suffered thefts. [Reuters via Engadget]

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