It’s the sort of thorough operation often mounted by nation-state hackers, according to the report, but FireEye’s intelligence unit believes the group, which it has been tracking for some time, is criminal. "These threat actors appear to be financially motivated, and well organized," the report said.
The heist, which saw payments processed through the bank’s accounts at the U.S. Federal Reserve and money moved to the Philippines and Sri Lanka, was part of a bigger attempt to steal nearly $1 billion in total from the central bank. It exposed weaknesses in systems, sparked a dispute between Bangladesh’s central bank and its finance ministry and cost the central bank governor his job less than five months before he planned to retire.
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