Foiled Vietnam attack likely a test run for Bangladesh heist
Hackers focusing on banks that might be using outdated versions of Swift or third-party vendor software
Hanoi
A FOILED hacking attack on a small Vietnamese bank may have been a practice run for a US$81 million cyber assault on Bangladesh's account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and points to vulnerabilities in how banks connect to the Swift interbank messaging system.
Vietnam's Tien Phong Commercial Joint Stock Bank, known as TPBank, infor…
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