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How hackers took complete control of a legit Brazilian bank

How hackers took complete control of a legit Brazilian bank

April 5, 2017

Via: Finextra
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A Brazilian bank had its entire IT operations taken over by hackers in a ‘stunning compromise’ that saw each of its 36 domains, corporate email and DNS under the attacker’s control.

The three-month long heist was uncovered last October when it became apparent the bank’s Website was serving malware to each of its visitors. The malware was a Java file tucked inside a .zip archive loaded into the index file.

Detailing the online assault at the Security Analyst Summit, Kaspersky Lab researchers Fabio Assolini and Dmitry Bestuzhev said that the attackers had extended their operations to nine other institutions worldwide.

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