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Compromiseseverity: Critical2017-04-03

Securelist 'Lazarus Under the Hood' details Bangladesh Bank SWIFT heist

published by Kaspersky (Securelist)
Actor
BlueNoroffKP · DPRKAPT

DPRK state-sponsored intrusion set treated by most vendors as the financial-operations subgroup of Lazarus, attributed to the Reconnaissance General Bureau. Responsible for the major SWIFT-network ba…

Summary

Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team published technical analysis tying the February 2016 fraudulent SWIFT transfers from Bangladesh Bank's New York Federal Reserve account — through which attackers moved roughly $81 million — to the Lazarus cluster's financial subgroup later widely tracked as BlueNoroff / APT38. The report documents shared tooling, infrastructure, and operator tradecraft across attacks on banks in multiple countries.

Tags

financialswiftbank-heistdprk

Primary source

securelist.com

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