Re: SWIFT: A Security Researcher Gets Offered The Big Score

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Fergie wrote:
> A few years ago, a security researcher living overseas was contacted by a
> man with an intriguing offer: The researcher would get 2.2 million euros
> (more than $2.8 million) for each financial services firm he helped the man
> and his group of cybercriminals infiltrate. All the researcher had to do
> was provide the group with Windows Terminal Services access with
> administrative privileges for each bank, which the thieves would then
> penetrate via the Swift network. Swift, the Society for Worldwide Interbank
> Financial Telecommunication, manages a network owned by about 8,000 banks
> in 206 countries and territories to facilitate electronic transfers.

Hmm... we used this as a plot item in Stealing the network: How to Own a
Continent. It was Fyodor's chapter:
http://insecure.org/stc/

So far though, Jay Beale holds the record for his chapters coming true
after writing...

                                        BB
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