The wiper malware affecting 9,000 workstations and 500 servers inside Chile’s largest financial institution turns out to have been a distraction.

Sources said the funds were diverted to fraudulent accounts in a coordinated heist that involved hundreds of wire transfers and on-the-ground accomplices.

Malicious e-mail attachments used in this campaign don’t display any warnings when opened and silently install malware.

The latest ShadowBrokers dump includes exploits that allowed the NSA to target SWIFT data managed by outsourced service bureaus in the Middle East.

The Lazarus Group has splintered off a group whose mission is to attack banks and steal money in order to fund its operations.

SWIFT’s chief information security officer said Wednesday that the cooperative is still seeing cases in which its customers’ environments have been compromised.

Reports of additional attacks against banks that use SWIFT, the global financial transaction messaging network, came to light Wednesday. The attacks were reportedly persistent, sophisticated and in some cases successful, impacting an undisclosed number of financial institutions. It’s the latest development since February when cybercriminals used SWIFT to steal $81 million in a Bangladesh Bank...

The SWIFT banking network on Friday updated financial institutions worldwide of new security resources it has developed in the wake of massive fraud. Officials also reminded banks of their role in securing their respective infrastructures. Banks in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ecuador have been infiltrated by attackers who stole credentials for the SWIFT system to move...

News of yet another attack involving a bank and SWIFT, the financial network used by thousands of banks to transfer funds, came to light Thursday as investigators continue to probe a separate $81 million heist in February involving the network and the central bank of Bangladesh. The Brussels-based global financial messaging network notified users on...

Bangladeshi police this week alleged that technicians associated with the financial network SWIFT introduced vulnerabilities that made it easier for hackers to infiltrate the systems of Bangladesh Bank and carry out a massive heist. Earlier this year hackers used stolen credentials to inject malware into the bank’s SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication,...