Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-12-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Globex
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Hackers try to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system. At the end the hackers only withdraw around $100,000.