Russia's Globex bank says hackers targeted its SWIFT computers
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Hackers tried to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, the bank said on Thursday, the latest in a string of attempted cyber heists that use fraudulent wire-transfer requests.
Globex President Valery Ovsyannikov told Reuters via the press service that the attempted attack occurred last week, but that “customer funds have not been affected.”
The bank’s disclosure comes after SWIFT, whose messaging system is used to transfer trillions of dollars each day, warned late last month that the threat of digital heists is on the rise as hackers use increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques to launch new attacks.
