10 years later, Bangladesh Bank cyberheist still offers cyber-resiliency lessons

Ten years after the Bangladesh Bank cyberheist in 2016, investigators traced the $81 million theft to North Korea's Lazarus Group, which hacked the bank's internal network and SWIFT (a system for sending international bank payments) to send fraudulent payment instructions. The attackers used spear-phishing emails (deceptive messages targeting specific people) to plant malware, created secret access points called backdoors, and sabotaged printers to hide evidence before triggering the attack during a holiday weekend when monitoring was minimal.