Fergie wrote: > A few years ago, a security researcher living overseas was contacted by a > man with an intriguing offer: The researcher would get 2.2 million euros > (more than $2.8 million) for each financial services firm he helped the man > and his group of cybercriminals infiltrate. All the researcher had to do > was provide the group with Windows Terminal Services access with > administrative privileges for each bank, which the thieves would then > penetrate via the Swift network. Swift, the Society for Worldwide Interbank > Financial Telecommunication, manages a network owned by about 8,000 banks > in 206 countries and territories to facilitate electronic transfers.
Hmm... we used this as a plot item in Stealing the network: How to Own a Continent. It was Fyodor's chapter: http://insecure.org/stc/ So far though, Jay Beale holds the record for his chapters coming true after writing... BB _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
