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From what I've read the 'Swift Hack' was actually just a failure to reconfigure the server configuration from it's factory settings at the Bangladesh bank. Not
by dev1n 10y ago
From what I've read the 'Swift Hack' was actually just a failure to reconfigure the server configuration from it's factory settings at the Bangladesh bank. Not necessarily a hack of the Swift Software, right?
Edit: Source - Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine (yes I still get this shipped to my apartment haha)
- rodgerd 10y ago> Not necessarily a hack of the Swift Software, right? It was absolutely a hack of the software. The Swift/Alliance software was modified to, for example, rewrite the PCL output of print jobs so as to make sure paper-based reconciliations would match the electronic fraud. See the informative http://baesystemsai.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m.html http://baesystemsai.blogspot.co.nz/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m... for details.
- ryanlol 10y agoThat doesn't really seem to fit the infosec definition of a hack. AFAIK so far there's been no evidence of the compromise happening via swift software.