Yes hacked another big bank. This time Russia's central bank was the victim of a cyber-attack that allowed hackers to steal about 31 million dollars or 2 billion rubles, according to reports.
The Bank of Russia has already confirmed the attack and said it is being investigated, avoiding more details or suspecting someone about hacking.
Mrfaceof the Central Bank of Russia Artyom Sychyov reported that the hackers wanted to steal about 5 billion rubles, but the security team managed to partially block the attack, reducing the losses to 2 billion rubles.
“We were lucky to get some of that back money", a representative of the central bank told CNN.
Although for the time being there are very few known about hacking against Russia's central bank, experts believe that the attack may be related to similar efforts made over the last two years and targeting banks around the world.
Only this year, a group of hackers managed to steal around 101 millions of dollars from central bank of Bangladesh hacking the SWIFT system, which is the global interbank system network which controls transactions. Just like in the case of Russia, the hackers tried to steal more money ($951.000.000) but were blocked before completing the money transfers.
Russia's Federal Security Service (also known as the FSB) had warned of possible attacks on local banks. But another hacked bank shows that warnings and security measures are not enough to protect systems even if they invest billions in better safety...
