The French bank Créamer Aron Mutualéa reported a loss of about 100 million euros after a cyber attack. Hackers used the bank account to make fraudulent transfers to other organizations, and the money could then be converted into cryptocurrency. Aron Kodeshéa cannot yet estimate how much of the money will be returned. In total it has more than 5.8 million customers and assets of 211.5 billion euros, so this is one of the rare successful robberies of a major bank.
But this is not the only such recent incident. Last week, hackers stole $6.3 billion in assets from the Binance crypto exchange: using a fake interview, they introduced malware to employees' computers. In Europe, the attackers broke into the control systems of refrigerators and freezers in supermarkets: the temperature in them rose to 50 degrees.
Against this background, regulators are strengthening control over cyber security. According to Reuters, after the Binance hack, the Federal Reserve and the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency contacted the banks to find out if they recorded any suspicious transactions or failures. The banks themselves also began to test their systems for weak points, including against the background of the growing capabilities of AI.