News that a Central Bank got hacked and millions removed from its depository shocked the world last year. The mentioned country was Bangladesh and the notorious hackers that manages to steal $US81 million were identified as the activity by Lazarus.

Revealed by Kaspersky Lab after a year long investigation, the security software firm discovered the identity of the crooks,  based on forensic analysis of artefacts left by the group in South-East Asian and European banks. This was derived after a deep understanding of what malicious tools the group uses and how it operates while attacking financial institutions, casinos, software developers for investment companies and crypto-currency businesses around the world. This knowledge has helped to interrupt at least two other operations which had one goal – to steal a large amount of money from financial institutions. 

Shockingly though, the malware inflicted by the group was also traced back to Malaysia, in February 2016, the hackers (unidentified at that time) attempted to steal $US851 million, and managed to transfer $US81 million from the Central Bank of Bangladesh. Is was considered to be one of the largest, most successful cyber heists ever.