Posted on 06/11/2011 9:02:43 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund, the intergovernmental group that oversees the global financial system and brings together 187 member nations, has become the latest known target of a significant cyber attack on its computer systems.
A cybersecruty expert who has worked for both the Washington-headquartered IMF and the World Bank, its sister institution, said the intruders' goal had been to install software that would give a nation state a "digital insider presence" on the IMF network.
Such a presence could yield a trove of non-public economic data used by the Fund to promote exchange rate stability, support balanced international trade and provide resources to remedy members' balance-of-payments crises.
"It was a targeted attack," said Tom Kellerman, who has worked for both international financial institutions and who serves on the board of a group known as the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance.
The code used in the IMF incident "was developed and released for this purpose," said Kellerman, formerly responsible for cyber-intelligence within the World Bank's treasury team and now chief technolgy officer at AirPatrol, a cyber consultancy.
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Those two nations are also in my Top Five list of potential suspects.
Those two nations are also in my Top Five list of potential suspects.
I hope the attackers are successful.
This isn't a Wikileaks attack, trying to expose corruption at the IMF. This is a nation trying to gain insider data in order to manipulate the markets.
No doubt to help influence a crackdown on the net. Sarkozy will love it.
Hopefully, it was Barrister Smith from Nigeria who has an unbelievable offer for the IMF...
The IMF seeks to remove the US Dollar as a reserve currency. This would be very bad for us. That means that if the IMF is stopped, it would be good for us. That is why I hope the attackers are successful.
It doesn’t look like they were trying to stop the IMF, but rather USE the IMF from within for their own gain...
CYBER ATTACK! Revenge of the Hotel Maid!
(At theaters near you)
False Flag operation to instill the worldwide internet controls so that a free population can only link to unicorns and rainbows 24/7.
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