I received a link to this from Kaspersky, my antivirus provider. This may seem irrelevant to us depositors, until the banks decide to make up their losses by "bail-ins" from our accounts...

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The greatest heist of the century: hackers stole $1 bln
February 16, 2015 Alex Drozhzhin

Advanced Persistent Threats, or APTs, are a pet subject for infosec experts to talk about, as such attacks usually employ the most sophisticated hacker tools. However, for common folks such threats are of no interest whatsoever.

To the general public, some of the most widely publicized attacks were like something from spy fiction. Until recently, APTs were not an issue to be concerned about, as the majority of APTs were targeting government organizations, with all details of investigations being highly confidential and real economic effect challenging to assess for obvious reasons.

However, things are about to change: APTs inaugurated their presence in the commercial sector, or, to be more exact, in the banking sector. The results are pretty easy to assess: the loss due to an APT campaign targeting dozens of global financial institutions totaled $1 bln.

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http://usblog.kaspersky.com/billion-dollar-apt-carbanak/?emv_mid=1115228111&emv_rid=1116229428849