{"id":1000,"date":"2016-06-16T19:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.201.249.27\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2016-06-16T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T19:11:46","slug":"exclusive-hackers-compromise-global-banking-system-highest-level-investigator-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackopspartners.com\/exclusive-hackers-compromise-global-banking-system-highest-level-investigator-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Hackers Compromise Global Banking System at Highest Level, Investigator Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"
The global banking system has been compromised by cybercriminals who have demonstrated they have high-level access that gives them nearly full control to alter data and steal from banks, according to an expert who has been investigating them on the darknet private forums run by the hackers.<\/p>\n
Ed Alexander\u00a0is a cyberHUMINT (human intelligence) specialist and a subject matter expert on the darknet. Only accessible with special software, the darknet, in addition to legitimate applications, is used by criminal groups to conspire and sell illicit goods.<\/p>\n
In a previous interview, Alexander provided Epoch Times with extensive evidence on the current global bank heist. He formerly asked to remain anonymous in order to protect his investigations, yet is now going public to expose the two groups of hackers who are behind the attacks.<\/p>\n
The cyberattacks relate to the string of banks that were recently breached by hackers, including the $81 million stolen from the central bank of Bangladesh. Alexander has provided evidence that these banks are merely the tip of the iceberg, and that the hackers have found a vulnerability that grants them access to thousands of banks around the world and across the United States.<\/p>\n
In the\u00a0previous article<\/a>, evidence provided by Alexander showed that the cyberattacks began around 2006, when hackers with the Chinese military acted under state orders to breach critical networks in Mexico. From there, the hackers were able to gain access to the computer systems of a major bank, and then into a major money transfer network to which the bank\u2014and many other banks\u2014are connected.<\/p>\n The Chinese hackers completed their assignment, and around June 2015 they sold the vulnerability they had exploited to cybercriminals on the darknet. Alexander\u00a0was able to provide screenshots from posts on a darknet cybercriminal marketplace that was selling access to the Mexican financial networks.<\/p>\n The cybercriminals who purchased the vulnerability from the Chinese hackers are the ones currently carrying out attacks on the global banking system, and Alexander provided new evidence showing the cybercriminals have high-level access to the banking networks that they are using to alter data.<\/p>\n Epoch Times spoke with three experts on cybercrime (two on record, one off-record) who were able to look over some of the screenshots of the attacks, which were provided as evidence. In their expert opinions the screenshots are legitimate, and their contents support Alexander\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n