Hackers Hit Banks as Everyone Spies on Everyone, Kaspersky Says - Bloomberg

Bloomberg, By Ilya Khrennikov

Hackers are increasingly stealing directly from banks and other companies and helping organized crime to operate more efficiently, according to the chief of cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab.

Examples range from infecting cash machines to dispense all their money to thieves, to hacking operations-management systems at ports so drugs can be smuggled more smoothly and at less risk, founder and Chief Executive Officer Eugene Kaspersky said in an interview at his Moscow office.

“Hackers have become capable of carrying out very advanced attacks,” Kaspersky said. In many cases “they infect corporate networks with viruses, which eventually -- via files exchanged between departments -- get into computers that handle money transfers,” which are usually separate from the main network. Read more.