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Hackers faked Cosmos backend to hoodwink bank out of $13.5m

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Facepalm

Hack against third-party interface

Ahem ...

Hackers were then in a position to establish a malicious ATM/POS switch in parallel with the existing (legit) system before breaking the connection to the backend/Core Banking System (CBS) and substituting their own counterfeit system in its place.”

What was this ATM/POS switch even doing on the Internet?

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