Global, dynamic, and eye-opening, this is story of the most daring cyber heist of all time, the Bangladeshi Central Bank | dG1fMzFGa0p5aTdNMWM
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00:00 There are four threats to the human race.
00:04 The pandemic, weapons of mass destruction, climate change, and cyber.
00:12 It takes one person, one weak link.
00:19 If you're being specifically targeted, they will follow that trace and they will get you.
00:27 The Federal Reserve in New York holds trillions of dollars kept by banks around the world.
00:33 The criminals can't hack the network system of the Fed, so they turn their attention to a more vulnerable target.
00:40 The Bangladesh Bank. The heist is on.
00:43 Bangladesh was the biggest cyber heist of all time.
00:48 It is a mistake to think this happened overnight.
00:51 Members of the Bangladeshi Bank were targeted.
00:54 They tricked them to click on an attachment that contained malicious code.
00:57 They were inside the bank's network for a full year.
01:02 Copying, screenshots, keystrokes of employees.
01:06 Jumping from a computer to a computer.
01:08 Bingo. They find the terminal that communicates with the Fed.
01:12 They had no idea for a very long time what was happening.
01:17 It's too late. The money's gone.
01:23 This isn't just normal criminals.
01:26 They're state-trained hackers, still very much at large.
01:31 Sony Pictures went down.
01:34 We saw a continued attack on hospitals in the United Kingdom.
01:38 The US election.
01:39 Bangladesh was a bombshell.
01:43 It just blew my mind.
01:45 Every year the hacks get bigger, the damage greater, the implications graver.
01:53 In many ways I think we've seen nothing yet.
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