続報を期待だな http://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3080133 バングラデシュ中銀、ハッカーの誤字で970億円の盗難免れる? 2016年03月12日 09:08 発信地:ダッカ/バングラデシュ
バングラデシュ中銀、ハッカーの誤字で970億円の盗難免れる? ×米ニューヨーク連邦準備銀行(2009年2月4日撮影、資料写真)。(c)AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY ▶ メディア・報道関係・法人の方向け 写真購入のお問合せ 【3月12日 AFP】バングラデシュ銀行(Bangladesh Bank、中央銀行)が米ニューヨーク連邦準備銀行(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)に保有する口座がハッカーに不正アクセスされ9億ドル(約1000億円)以上が盗まれようとしたが、ハッカー側の誤字などにより大きな被害を免れていたことが分かった。バングラデシュ銀行の関係者が11日に明らかにした。 ハッカーは先月5日、ニューヨーク連銀にサイバー攻撃を仕掛け、バングラデシュ銀行の外国為替口座から8100万ドル(約92億円)を盗んでフィリピンの口座へ移した。ハッカーはさらに、バングラデシュ銀行の口座から別の口座への送金依頼を数十回行ってさらに8億5000万ドル(約970億円)を盗もうと試みたが、銀行のセキュリティーシステムとハッカーの誤字により大きな被害を免れたという。 バングラデシュ銀行のラジー・ハサン(Razee Hassan)副総裁はAFPに対し「8100万ドルが(ニューヨーク)連銀の口座から盗まれ、フィリピンのいくつかの口座に入金された。しかし連銀のセキュリティーシステムにより、8億5000万ドルの盗難は阻止された」と述べた。 ハサン副総裁は「ハッカーは(バングラデシュの)預金をスリランカの口座に移動しようと試みたが、送金依頼に誤字がありこの試みは阻止された」と語った。送金依頼を35回行ったものの失敗したという。 ハッキングはバングラデシュ銀行が営業していない金曜日に行われた。続く土曜日と日曜日はニューヨーク連銀が営業しておらず、さらにその翌日2月8日の月曜日は旧正月でフィリピンの銀行が休みだった。銀行間の連絡に時間がかかるタイミングを狙って犯行に及んだとみられている。 バングラデシュではサイバー犯罪として捜査が行われている。バングラデシュ銀行は先に、犯行を行ったのは中国人の疑いがあるとの見方を示しているが、ニューヨーク連銀は今月7日、短文投稿サイト・ツイッター(Twitter)に「ハッキングの報道について、当銀行のセキュリティーシステムが攻撃・侵入された形跡はない」と投稿し、自行のシステムが侵入されたことを否定している。(c)AFP http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/10/spelling-mistake-prevented-bank-heist Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist New York Fed reveals spelling of ‘foundation’ as ‘fandation’ prompted bank to seek clarification and stop transfer, but hackers still got away with about $80m Bank hackers The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank’s systems and stole its credentials for payment transfers, two senior officials said. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Reuters Thursday 10 March 2016 18.31 GMT Last modified on Friday 11 March 2016 16.14 GMT Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 4,575 Comments 233 Save for later A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1bn heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. Unknown hackers still managed to get away with about $80m, one of the largest known bank thefts in history. The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank’s systems and stole its credentials for payment transfers, two senior officials at the bank said. They then bombarded the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with nearly three dozen requests to move money from the Bangladesh Bank’s account there to entities in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, the officials said. Four requests to transfer a total of about $81m to the Philippines went through, but a fifth, for $20m, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation was held up because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO, Shalika Foundation. Advertisement Hackers misspelled “foundation” in the NGO’s name as “fandation”, prompting a routing bank, Deutsche Bank, to seek clarification from the Bangladesh central bank, which stopped the transaction, one of the officials said. There is no NGO under the name of Shalika Foundation in the list of registered Sri Lankan non-profits. Reuters could not immediately find contact information for the organisation. Deutsche Bank declined to comment. At the same time, the unusually high number of payment instructions and the transfer requests to private entities – as opposed to other banks – raised suspicions at the Fed, which also alerted the Bangladeshis, the officials said. The details of how the hacking came to light and was stopped before it did more damage have not been previously reported. Bangladesh Bank has billions of dollars in a current account with the Fed, which it uses for international settlements. The transactions that were stopped totalled $850m to $870m, one of the officials said. Last year, Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab said a multinational gang of cyber-criminals had stolen as much as $1bn from as many as 100 financial institutions around the world in about two years. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s son Qusay took $1bn from Iraq’s central bank on the orders of his father on the day before coalition forces began bombing the country in 2003, American and Iraqi officials have said. In 2007, guards at the Dar Es Salaam bank in Baghdad made off with $282m. Bangladesh Bank has said it has recovered some of the money that was stolen, and is working with anti-money laundering authorities in the Philippines to try to recover the rest. Advertisement A bank spokesman could not be reached for comment late on Thursday. The recovered funds refer to the Sri Lanka transfer, which was stopped, one of the officials said. Initially, the Sri Lankan transaction reached Pan Asia Banking Corp, which went back to Deutsche Bank for more verification because of the unusually large size of the payment, a Pan Asia official said. “The transaction was too large for a country like us,” the official said. “Then [Deutsche] came back and said it was a suspect transaction.” A Pan Asia spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment. The dizzying, global reach of the heist underscores the growing threat of cybercrime and how hackers can find weak links in even the most secure computer networks. More than a month after the attack, Bangladeshi officials are scrambling to trace the money, shore up security and identify weaknesses in their systems. They said there is little hope of ever catching the hackers, and it could take months before the money is recovered, if at all. Security experts said the perpetrators had deep knowledge of the Bangladeshi institution’s internal workings, probably gained by spying on bank workers. The Bangladesh government, meanwhile, is blaming the Fed for not stopping the transactions earlier. The finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, told reporters on Tuesday that the country may resort to suing the Fed to recover the money. “The Fed must take responsibility,” he said. The New York Fed has said its systems were not breached, and it has been working with the Bangladesh central bank since the incident occurred. The hacking of Bangladesh Bank happened sometime between 4-5 February, over the Bangladeshi weekend, which falls on a Friday, the officials said. The bank’s offices were shut. Initially, the central bank was not sure if its system had been breached, but cybersecurity experts brought in to investigate found hacker “footprints” that suggested the system had been compromised, the officials said. These experts could also tell that the attack originated from outside Bangladesh, they said, adding the bank is looking into how they got into the system and an internal investigation is ongoing. The bank suspects money sent to the Philippines was further diverted to casinos there, the officials said. The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp, which oversees the gaming industry, said it has launched an investigation. The country’s anti-money laundering authority is also working on the case.
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