"As soon as they bypass the firewalls, they target the machines using Microsoft exploits," Suiche told Reuters. "We now have all of the tools the NSA used to compromise SWIFT (via) Cisco firewalls, Windows," Suiche said. BREACH OF FIREWALLSA PowerPoint presentation that was part of the most recent Shadow Brokers release indicates the NSA used a tool codenamed BARGLEE to breach the SWIFT service providers' security firewalls. The Al Quds Bank for Development and Investment, for example, was running a Windows 2008 server that at the time was vulnerable to newly disclosed Windows exploits, he said. The NSA targeted nine computer servers at a SWIFT contractor, Dubai-based service bureau EastNets, according to the documents.

Source: Bangkok Post April 16, 2017 00:22 UTC