{"id":16489,"date":"2016-12-03T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T12:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=16489"},"modified":"2016-12-03T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T12:20:51","slug":"russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian central bank loses $31 million in cyber attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Russian central bank loses $31 million in cyber attack<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Russian central bank loses $31 million in cyber attack:-<\/strong> Hackers stole more than 2 billion rubles ($31 million) from correspondent accounts at the Russian central bank, the bank said on Friday, the latest example of an escalation of cyber attacks on financial institutions around the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Central bank official Artyom Sychyov discussed the losses at a briefing, saying that the hackers had attempted to steal about 5 billion rubles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Sychyov was commenting on a central bank report released earlier in the day, that told about hackers breaking into accounts there by <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">faking a client&#8217;s credentials. The bank provided few other details in its lengthy report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16492\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack-1.jpg\" alt=\"Russian Central Bank Loses 31 Million In Cyber Attack\" width=\"765\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack-1-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Financial regulators around the world have recently urged banks to beef up cyber security in the wake of a string of high-profile heists on banks around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Fears about attacks on banks have mounted since February when unknown cyber criminals stole $81 million in funds that Bangladesh&#8217;s central bank had on deposit at the New York Fed. Law enforcement agencies around the globe are hunting for the criminals who stole the money using fraudulent <\/span>wire transfer<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> requests sent over the SWIFT bank messaging network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Separately, Russia said on Friday that it had uncovered a plot by foreign spy agencies to sow chaos in the country&#8217;s banking system via a coordinated wave of cyber attacks and fake social media reports about banks going bust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-russia-cenbank-cyberattack-idUSKBN13R1TO<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian central bank loses $31 million in cyber attack Russian central bank loses $31 million in cyber attack:- Hackers stole more than 2 billion rubles ($31 million) from correspondent accounts at the Russian central bank, the bank said on Friday, the latest example of an escalation of cyber attacks on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[10286,10287,10288,10285,3299],"class_list":["post-16489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-artyom-sychyov","tag-cenbank","tag-cyberattack","tag-russian-central-bank-loses-31-million-in-cyber-attack","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}