Swift Investigation Highlights Twelve More Potential Breaches
The Swift payment network breaches have been making media headlines for several weeks now. But it appears more than three banks may have been breached, as researchers are investigating 12 similar incidents. Although nothing has been confirmed yet, this news does not bode well for the financial ecosystem. A lot of people were concerned about Swift when it became clear more than one bank lost funds due to a breach. To make matters even worse, the scope of these attacks may be much broader than anticipated. FireEye researchers are investigating a dozen incidents involved computer breaches....
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