Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-05-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: Tien Phong Bank
Affected country: Viet Nam
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: SWIFT confirms a new attack in which attackers managed to illegally transfer funds from a member bank by using its system. Further details, including the bank name are revealed two days after. The victim is the Tien Phong Bank in Vietnam.