Cybercriminals
mostly target two things, Data and Money – Data has also been used as the source
to get money as it has been proved to be very resourceful and organisations
tend to buy data which are stolen from other organisation for different
reasons.
Banks
have been targeted by cybercriminals of late – Not long ago Central bank of Bangladesh falls to
victim of the cyber-attacks and US $ 80
Million were stolen by cybercriminals.
Some of the contributing factors in
the US $80 million theft from the Bangladesh central bank included the use of
inexpensive, second-hand routers and the lack of a firewall. In addition, an
investigation conducted by BAE Systems suggests the attackers tricked the SWIFT
financial software with custom malware.
Cyber-attacks
did not end to Central bank of Bangladesh – Greek central bank site was also attacked by cybercriminals some
days back. It looks like this has become a serious problem especially when the
website of the Central Bank of Cyprus
briefly came under cyber-attack, days after a hacking collective said it
conducted a similar attack on the Greek central bank's site.
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TAKE NOTE: It’s no longer enough to blindly
implement a cybersecurity strategy and simply hope that you’re safe. These
solutions must be tested to examine how they hold up against a dedicated
attack.
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The
central bank's website came under "some form of a denial-of-service"
attack, a spokeswoman said on Friday, via email.
She
did not say when the attack occurred, but several on-line news sites covering
cyber security said it came on Thursday. The bank could not be reached to
verify the date.
