State-owned Rupali Bank suspended ATM operations from 11pm on Saturday to 7am on Sunday due to the threat. Tarique M Barkaullah, the government’s Computer Incident Response Team or CIRT, however, said they had no information about threats from the North Korean hackers. He said they posted a notice on their website after receiving a threat alert on a mercenary group of hackers called “CostaRicto” targeting South Asian financial institutions. “But there is nothing to be afraid of a cyber-attack here (CostaRicto threat),” he said and added that it was a routine alert. It had issued an alert by the end of August, asking the banks to be alert to the dangers posed by the North Korean hackers’ group.

Source: bd News24 November 21, 2020 21:45 UTC