6 million dollars in stealing cyber attacks

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Banking transaction messaging apps Swift has hacked six million dollars from a Russian bank in a cyber attack. In the last year (2016), hackers launched this attack in July. This information was received from Russia's central bank statement on Friday.
Central Bank of the Russian Federation said that the information about successful attack on an operator of Messaging Apps Swift has been sent to them. As a result, 33 million rubles ($ 6 million) were stolen from swift international payment messaging system.
Swift spokesman Natasha De Terran said, "We have been accused of possible fraud. Then we help protect the damaged user. However, they did not mention the name of a specific person or organization.
A spokesman for the Russian Central Bank, quoting their security department's deputy chief Arthur Sychev, said the hackers lifted the money. And when they can take control of a computer, it can do so easily. The Brussels-based Swift further said that in the last year hackers used more advanced technologies and techniques to start a new attack.
Note that in December last year, the hackers tried to steal 55 million rubles from the Russian state bank Globex with swift system and in February 2016, 81 million dollars was stolen from the Bangladesh Bank.

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