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Meet the malware that screwed a Bangladeshi bank out of $81m

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Follow the money

Interesting how these funds keep getting "diverted" - in the old days you grabbed some jewelry and accepted that $1,000,000 of jewels translated to about $300,000 in clean money, with expenses you would net less but still something that you could put in a suitcase and retire on.

But what do you do with $81,000,000? You've already laundered it so there's no need to fence it - that's a lot of money and it's a safe assumption that no matter what insurance policy you've set up you'll be watching your back for the rest of your life. However long that is.

So I tend to think that this is more like a state financed or agency generating some cash for "black" expenditures. Let's face it, the NSA, GCHQ, FAPSI and other nations versions of these organizations have all the tools necessary for this sort of operation.

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