Odinaff hacker group targeting banks with fraudulent Swift messages, warns Symantec

Boston

CYBERSECURITY firm Symantec Corp said on Tuesday that a second hacking group has sought to rob banks using fraudulent Swift messages, the same approach that yielded US$81 million in the high profile February attack on Bangladesh's central bank.

Symantec said that a group dubbed Odinaff has infected 10 to 20 organisations with malware that can be used to hide fraudulent transfer requests made over Swift, the messaging system that is a lynchpin of the global financial system.