HSBC warned of BOV hackers last year

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https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/93525/hsbc_warned_of_bov_hackers_last_year

By Matthew Vella
Malta Today
11 March 2019

A confidential IT security report seen by MaltaToday shows that HSBC Malta was 
targeted by the hacking group EmpireMonkey months in advance before their 
successful hacking of Bank of Valletta.

The group carried out a €13 million heist from the bank on 13 February, which 
led BOV to temporarily take its services offline.

But the hackers were already busy targeting HSBC bank in Malta as early as 25 
October 2018 - three and a half months before the successful incursion into BOV 
- a document detailing the communications issued by HSBC, seen by this 
newspaper, shows.

"Has anyone else observed malware delivered from this domain [Autorité des 
marchés financiers] since 19 October?... we have observed subsequent delivery 
attempts on 22 and 24 October," the consultants said, referring to an attack on 
the French stock market regulator AMF.

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