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Comment Re:Roll back? (Score 2) 46

"Once inside the network, the hackers modified software called Alliance Access to both make the transactions and hide the evidence. Alliance reads and writes SWIFT messages to files on the filesystem, and it records transaction information in an Oracle database. The hackers created malware that removed integrity checks within the Alliance software and then monitored the transaction files sent through the system, searching the payment orders and confirmations for specific terms. These terms and the responses to them were specified by a Command and Control server in Egyp When a message with one of the search terms was found, the malware would do different things depending on the kind of message. Payment orders were modified to increase the amounts being moved, updating the Alliance database with new values. Confirmation messages from the SWIFT network were also modified. Confirmations are printed and stored in the database. Before being printed, the malware would alter the confirmations to show the original, correct transaction value; it also deleted conformations from the Alliance database entirely. It's still not clear how the initial transactions were entered into the system to trigger the malware in the first place. Getting the money out is also difficult. It is being laundered through the Philippines, and that laundering is currently being investigated by the Philippine senate. The $81 million that was successfully stolen was sent to the Philippines to accounts at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) held by two Chinese nationals who organize gambling junkets in Macau and the Philippines. The money was moved to several Philippine casinos and then subsequently to international bank accounts. Philippine casinos are exempted of anti-money laundering law that requires them to report suspicious transactions, making them an attractive target for this kind of crime. The Treasurer of RCBC has resigned, and the manager of one of its branches is facing criminal charges after she withdrew $427,000 from an account linked to the theft. The Governor of the Bangladesh Bank, Atiur Rahman, also resigned in March over the heist.t" http://arstechnica.com/securit...

Comment Re:Yeah, man! (Score 3, Informative) 123

well.... if you actually click the link......under to the video, you would see that there is a ghostbin link with a text file full of links to articles and documentary siting specific things he sees as injustices, like a bibliography. And in his previous post about the HackingTeam hack he had just as many sources linking to specific things that caused him he act on them. Whether you agree with his reasoning is one thing. But he is specific in his intent.

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