Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-10-09 00:00:00
Affected organization: Far Eastern International Bank
Affected country: Taiwan (Province of China)
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Financial
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: A hacking gang abuses the SWIFT banking network to steal $60 million after planting malware on a Taiwanese bank's servers. Two arrests are made in Sri Lanka related to the attack. The Lazarus Group is believed to be behind the attack.