In this way the attackers could manipulate all the parties involved into transferring funds to their own accounts instead of those intended by impersonating both sides of the conversation.

They then registered similar domains to those on the other side of the conversation, diverted the legitimate communication and instead sent their own modified emails. The group used email rules to divert those they deemed interesting into another folder. The attackers gained control over the victim's email accounts and intercepted specific emails involving the planned transfer of funds. On December 3, 2019, 3 private equity firms in the UK and Israel had £600k stolen by attackers, known as the “The Florentine Banker,” through a sophisticated business email compromise scheme. CISA, 'BeagleBoyz overlap to varying degrees with groups tracked by the cybersecurity industry as Lazarus, Advanced Persistent Threat 38 (APT38), Bluenoroff, and Stardust Chollima and are responsible for the FASTCash ATM cash outs reported in October 2018, fraudulent abuse of compromised bank-operated SWIFT system endpoints since at least 2015, and lucrative cryptocurrency thefts'.ĭate Breach First Reported: 12/3/19 Incident government considers BeagleBoyz to be a subset of HIDDEN COBRA activity. government issued a joint alert to warn the public about an ongoing cyber campaign by North Korea-backed 'BeagleBoyz' group which is using remote access malware tools to steal millions from financial institutions in at least 38 countries around the world. Location: Argentina, Brazil, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Tanzania, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zambiaĭate Breach First Reported: 8/26/20 Incident

FinCyber Initiative, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Timeline of Cyber Incidents Involving Financial Institutions. When citing this resource, please use the following format:Ĭarnegie Endowment for International Peace and BAE Systems. For further questions about the methodology, please contact the team here. With respect to associating a specific date with a cyber incident, which may be part of a longer cyber operation, the dates for each event are chosen intuitively either using the starting date/month of the incident, if known, or when the incident was first reported. other details about the incident summarized in a short narrative text.attribution, which includes an assessment of the level of confidence in the information about the attacker and.

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The incidents are coded using several indicators and can be filtered accordingly: The timeline is based on Carnegie research and data BAE Systems’s threat intelligence team shares with Carnegie on a monthly basis and are subsequently added to the timeline. The timeline tracks cyber incidents involving financial institutions dating back to 2007.

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