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Midweek Roundup: SWIFT Confirms New Cyberattacks, European Lender Targeted by Hong Kong Phishing Scam, and More
printHackers in the past year have managed to access the SWIFT portals of several additional financial institutions since February, when the Bangladesh Bank reported losing $81 million as a result of similar cyberattacks, according to a Nov. 2 letter obtained by Reuters. More The £2.5 million cyberattack on Tesco Bank customers last month may have been enabled by the U.K. retail lender's alleged practice of issuing sequential instead of randomly-generated debit card numbers, rivals told the Financial Times. More Global financial institutions in the past year have lost around €180 million to email scams perpetrated from Hong Kong, with a...
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