Today, we publish the VB2016 paper “Modern attacks on Russian financial institutions” (
here
in HTML format and
here
in PDF format) by
ESET
researchers Jean-Ian Boutin and Anton Cherepanov.
In it, they look at a number of groups that have performed sophisticated attacks against a number of Russian financial institutions. The work of these groups demonstrates the increasing sophistication and professionalization of cybercrime.
Today, the paper’s authors have also published a
blog post
about the paper on
ESET
‘s
We Live Security
blog, in which they point out a misunderstanding in the way the Russian banking system works, which has led to a few
news reports
initially misreporting a theft at the Russian Central Bank while, in fact, the attack affected commercial banks.
We have also uploaded the video of the presentation to our
YouTube
channel.
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