Morning Agenda: North Korea Linked to Attacks on Banks
ByNORTH KOREA LINKED TO ATTACKS ON BANKS |Security researchers have tied several online breaches at Asian banks to North Korea,
Nicole Perlroth and Michael Corkery report in DealBook. The digital security firm Symantec said that in three recent attacks, the thieves used a rare piece of code that had been seen in only two previous cases — the hacking attack on Sony Pictures in 2014 and attacks on banks and media companies in South Korea the year before.
Symantec researchers said the evidence linked an attack at a bank in the Philippines last October with attacks on Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam in December and another in February that resulted in the theft of $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh…
Morning Agenda: North Korea Linked to Attacks on Banks
