Reserve Bank of Australia Targeted in Cyberattacks (March 11, 2013)

From The SANS Institute:

Reserve Bank of Australia Targeted in Cyberattacks (March 11, 2013) The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has acknowledged that in November 2011, hackers managed to gain access to RBA systems through targeted phishing attacks. The information has come to light through a Freedom of Information request and was disclosed in December 2012. The phishing email messages appeared to come from "a possibly legitimate external email address ... from a senior bank employee" and were accompanied by an attachment that installed a Trojan horse program on the computers of those who opened the attachment. An RBA spokesperson said that while the infection posed the threat of data theft, no information was stolen. http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/hackers-breach-reserve-bank-20130311-2fv8i.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21738540 http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2253724/australian-central-bank-hit-by-cyber-attacks RBA Media Release: http://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2013/mr-13-05.html