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Is there a nation-state actor who would have cause to put forth these resources to disturb the Bangladeshi central bank?
by yompers888 10y ago
Is there a nation-state actor who would have cause to put forth these resources to disturb the Bangladeshi central bank?
- meowface 10y agoPure speculation, but impressive as this is, it feels just amateurish enough to not be a nation-state. They made some mistakes like typos in the sending address of the wire recipient, and also made the attack discoverable the night/morning after, when an employee noticed SWIFT reports weren't printing properly. I think they were probably just in it for the money.
- yompers888 10y agoOk, fair enough. I could have seen it being either way, but I've mostly only read the big reports about nation-state actors, so I'm probably biased to see it that way. As a separate note, state actors can be very amateurish. The Chinese did things, as disclosed by the Mandiant APT1 Report, like taunting users, using very non-native English phishing messages,and leaving plaintext signatures as a means of bragging.