Julio López Moreno
10 Jul 2020
16 Nov 2016
Computer studies, sciences and development
Fraud in cross-border payments: an attack to the heart of the banking system
“SWIFT is aware of a number of recent cyber incidents in which malicious insiders or external attackers have managed to submit SWIFT messages from financial institutions' back-offices, PCs or workstations connected to their local interface to the SWIFT network". This statement was issued in April 2016 by SWIFT, the global financial network used by 11,000 institutions from 200 countries to transfer billions of dollars every day.