Bank of Valletta has yet to establish who was behind a cyberattack that saw hackers transfer €13 million to overseas banks on Wednesday, forcing the bank to temporarily shut down all operations.
In comments to Times of Malta on Thursday afternoon, BOV's chief business development officer, Kenneth Farrugia, said it was still too early to say who was behind the attack.
All of the bank’s functions - branches, ATMs, mobile banking and even email services - were suspended at around 1pm yesterday after discrepancies emerged during the reconciliation of international transactions. The bank resumed operations on Thursday morning.
"At this stage, we don't know who was behind it. There isn't a yes or no answer because the entry points can be through various channels. You can have someone using a USB, someone who received an e-mail with malware in it, through internet banking, and so on.
"We have started eliminating by looking at audit logs to try to find out where this came from and what the entry point was. But we have yet to determine the source," Mr Farrugia told Times of Malta.
Pressed to say whether the bank had any indication of whether the attack came from overseas or whether,...
