Friday, February 3, 2017

Russian banking sector was attacked. Hackers attacked several banks and KNF – Money.pl

Continues a massive attack on Polish banks, and doing basic services in the country. Information was confirmed by the Ministry of Digitisation and the KNF. Most likely, the hackers stole from banks sensitive data. Shall assure that the money is not in danger. This may indicate that the attack should the stranger interview.

- we Know about the incident and analyze the situation. In the case involving the relevant services. At the moment there are no signals that the deposits were under threat. The analysis – according to WP money Karol Manys the Ministry of Digitizing.

it adds that the government is in constant contact with all stakeholders, including banks. – In the case involved the relevant services is comforting. From our data it follows that we are talking about the Internal Security Agency.

- the Polish computer scientists-why no case. Used by hackers code has not been previously used. The two traces. Maybe it’s a professional group of hackers or alien interview – says an anonymous informant WP money.

the first attack said the service “Trusted Third Party”. He also claims that we can deal with one of the most serious theft of banking systems in history. It professionals working in several Latvian banks found in the internal network of its agencies, malicious and very sophisticated software.

What is even more dangerous, these programs were not fungi through installed antivirus. As evidenced by the service, the victim of the attack sounded like the employees ‘ computers and servers storing sensitive data.

Although it’s all coming out just now, that hackers were able to breach the security start for many weeks, and in some cases even up to several months.

the Hackers used the website of KNF?

According to our information, in many Latvian financial institutions, is now an accurate overview of the entire network with all the computers and servers. Thus, the number of confirmed cases may be even greater.

- In the Management Committee of Financial Supervision established, was an attempt of foreign intervention in the information system that supports the site knf.gov.pl. Internal reporting system supervised entities operate independently from the information systems supporting the web site and stay safe – according to WP money Jacek Barszczewski, press Secretary of the Ministry. Like adds, the work of KNF is “safely”.

According to WP money, malware, originally hosted on the server KNF. It’s there, most likely, attacked by banks. We used a General confidence in government organizations. According to our informant, it is possible that the problem is not, in this regard, only the banks. Servers and computers KNF could be infected and other government agencies.

- No, do not confirm this information, but the case is under investigation, also from this angle. We check all possible evidence – says the press-Secretary of the Ministry of Digitizing.

the KNF Website yesterday for a while stopped working completely. Then she came back with a message about the ongoing administrative offences. Today, the site is just a stub – the official Magazine. Is it through it is attacked by hackers?

- web Site www.knf.gov.pl has been disabled by the administrator) to protect the evidence. Control remains in current contact with representatives of the monitored sectors, including banking, the activity of which is not in any danger – explains Barszczewski.

As established WP money the whole thing it professionals have discovered PKO BP, the largest Polish Bank. It has a special cell that discovers a threat to the entire banking system. PKO BP does not comment on the case. Magdalena Lejman from the press service of the Bank informed us that this, like other institutions, exchanging information about threats.

All institutions ensure that the money invested in them are completely safe.

Behind the attacks is a stranger interview?

more importantly, our informant confirms that a party KNF zainfektowana was for a long time. The same information is transmitted to a Trusted Third Party. In October last year, was there other people’s scripts, but no one noticed. At the moment, the virus codes have already been demolished Polish specialists in the field of information technology. And the findings are alarming. Most of the script was never used previously.

this means that the attack was well prepared – she can hold or a specialized group of criminals or other people’s interviews. Polish security services have at the moment to check a large part of the institutions of the domains that use government. Suspicion in the attack of foreign intelligence we heard from two interrelated sources.

At the moment, all the investigators have adopted ABW. The Internal Security Agency in response to our questions informed us that, “in view of the effectiveness of ABW can not give information about the details of the action taken”.

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