Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-01-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: Banco del Austro
Affected country: Ecuador
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: Here's the third victim of the SWIFT hack: Banco del Austro in Ecuador was also the victim of a similar attack in 2015 which saw cybercriminals steal around $12m.