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"The writ of execution that the money be handed back to Bangladesh has already been done by the court. The good thing is now that the process on this $15 million is more or less completed, we will go for the rest."By no means is the work of Bangladesh Bank over, however. It's still missing an additional 66 million USD that attackers stole back in February. During the heist, attackers used malware linked to the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack to slightly alter Bangladesh Bank's Access Alliance, a software package made by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT). That change ultimately allowed the attackers to make fraudulent money orders totaling approximately one billion USD. Only four requests totaling 81 million USD made it through, and they all went to the Philippines. To protect against attacks such as these, financial organizations should invest in security solutions that can help detect malicious software and unauthorized file changes. They should also internalize these five lessons we can learn from the Bangladesh Bank heist.