Financial gain is often the main motivator behind advanced attacks. So, with that in mind, let’s take a closer look at an APT that targeted a Bangladesh bank, whose purpose was to transfer around $951 million into the cybercriminal’s bank accounts.
The malware exploited vulnerabilities in the bank’s SWIFT financial platform by patching a specific library, making the host application believe a failed security check had in fact succeeded.
This gave the malware the privileges to grant itself the ability to execute database transactions on the victim network.
