Officials in several nations are probing the security of the SWIFT interbank messaging system in the wake of recent hacker attacks. The scrutiny was triggered by a February incident in which hackers stole $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh’s New York Federal Reserve account via the messaging service provided by Brussels-based SWIFT. News of another SWIFT hack has come to light, via a lawsuit filed by Banco del Austro in Ecuador against San Francisco-based Wells Fargo. A Vietnamese bank recently revealed it foiled a plot to transfer $1.36 million out of its accounts in the fourth quarter of 2015.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/officials-in-several-nations-probe-swift-security-a-9123