SWIFT banking system often target

The global banking system SWIFT, which is used to settle international payments, is often the target of hacking attacks than was previously known.

' The threat is very present, adapts and is highly refined- and continues to exist, '' wrote SWIFT, based in Belgium, in the letter. Via the SWIFT network would be carried ' a significant number of attacks. '' In taking money was stolen about a fifth of all cases.

SWIFT previously said there was carried out a successful hack only three times since February. However, the analysis looted money. A year earlier happened though, in an attack on an account of the Bangladesh Bank at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.