translated from Spanish: North Korean hackers attacked banks and tried to steal US$ 1.100 million

a North Korean hacker group that aims to raise funds for the State rebel has penetrated banks around the world with a series of attacks, and has tried to steal at least $1,100 million in the past four years, according to a new count of the signing of cybersecurity FireEye Inc.
The group, FireEye identified as APT38, has infiltrated more than 16 organizations in 11 countries, including the United States, and stole more than $100 million. Hackers have managed to penetrate servers strongly guarded banks and have spent time exploring networks. Security officials must be alarmed, he said last week in a report FireEye.
“What difference the North Koreans is that they expect an average of 155 days until they steal the money”, said Charles Carmakal, Vice President of consulting at FireEye, in an interview. “They understand banking networks quite well. “And geopolitical considerations will likely have the time, the location of their attacks”.
APT38 most notable attack was the theft of funds from the accounts of the central bank of Bangladesh in the United States Federal Reserve in 2016. In that case, hackers managed to the Fed transferred $100 million by sending false transfer orders. They recovered about $40 million when it was discovered the cyber attack and transfers were reversed until they could withdraw the funds.
In January, the State-owned commercial bank of Mexico thwarted the attempted robbery of US$ 110 million using similar methods. In may, a Chilean Bank lost $10 million (at the Bank of Chile). All were made by APT38, FireEye said in its report.
North Korean diplomats and official media have denied that the country has involvement in cyber attacks.
In their recent attacks, the Group erased hard disks of the computers to erase their traces, said Carmakal. Even while other attacks continue, APT38 not pointed to U.S. banks in the midst of the North Korea peace talks with U.S., said.
Banks and other financial institutions are white of the most sophisticated cybercriminals, who are attracted by the lure of large sums of money, said FireEye and other groups.
That has led banks to spend more than other industries to protect, and annual budgets in cybersecurity of the largest U.S. companies reach the $1,000 million.
Financial firms face the largest number of attempts of violation of addresses of computers that have already been blocked due to previous infractions, according to a report to be published on Tuesday by the firm of cybersecurity eSentire. That aims at targeted campaigns and persistent efforts of sophisticated attackers, according to Eldon Sprickerhoff, founder and director of eSentire innovation.

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