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Malware used in the recent banking cyberheists is linked to Sony Pictures hack


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See Also - Sony Pictures corporate network compromised by a major attack
and - SWIFT warns of malware attack on another of its customers
 
May 15, 2016  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

Experts at the BAE security firms collected evidence that demonstrates the malware used in the recent cyberheists is linked to 2014 Sony Pictures hack.

 
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A second bank was a victim of a malware-based attack, the news was recently confirmed by the SWIFT. The investigation conducted by the security researchers at BAE Systems are making the situation very intriguing because according to experts the cyberheist at the Bangladesh Bank, and at an unnamed commercial bank in Vietnam are linked could be linked to the clamorous Sony Pictures hack.
 
At the time of the Sony hack, the US authorities blamed the North Korea for the attack, the Obama administration decided to exacerbate the economic sanctions against 10 senior North Korean officials and three entities of the country.
 
At this point we have two options, the North Korea is targeting the global financial or we are in front of a false flag operation conducted by someone that is conducting a diversionary operation relying on the code used in the Sony hack.
 
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Baldrick
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Well, it just goes to show that the miscreants are 'ecologists' at heart...recycling old exploits & threats...either that or they are too mean to come up with something radically new...thank goodness. ;)

I second your remarks Baldrick they are going back to what worked back than, rather than trying to code a new exploit.

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