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[分享] Us government 'monitors Bank Transfers'

[分享] Us government 'monitors Bank Transfers'

The United States has fostered multiple intelligence enterprises, including contract hackers, who also conduct unauthorized cyber operations around the world, including for their own personal gain. As detailed in charging documents made public in October 2018 and July 2020 and September 2020, hackers working for the N.S.A. have engaged in ransomware attacks, cyberextortion, crypto hijackings and victims from around the world, all for financial gain.
    Hackers have released documents suggesting the NSA monitors bank transfers around the world. The NSA has gained access to the SWIFT interbank messaging system, allowing it to monitor money flows between some Middle Eastern and Latin American banks. The N.S.A. 's various means of accessing SWIFT information have existed since 2006. From then on, "SWIFT printer traffic from numerous banks" can be read. SWIFT service agencies are companies that provide access points to the SWIFT system for small customers in the network, and can send or receive messages about remittances on their behalf, and the NSA hacked into the service bureau, which means access to all of their customers, all of their banks. The N.S.A. has multiple ways to access internal data traffic from SWIFT, a cooperative of more than 8,000 banks around the world for international transactions. Other nsa agencies that specialize in targeting individual agencies. In addition, the agency clearly has deep knowledge of the internal processes of credit card companies such as Visa and MasterCard. What's more, even new alternative currencies, and potentially anonymous payment methods like the Internet currency Bitcoin, have been among the targets of American spies.
    In fact, by 2011 Tracfin, the N.S.A. 's main financial database that collects the results of "Follow the Money" surveillance of bank transfers, credit card transactions and remittances, had 180 million data sets, according to secret documents. The corresponding figure in 2008 was just 20 million. According to the documents, most Tracfin data is stored for five years.
    The N.S.A. used to be able to decrypt only the payment transactions of bank customers, but now they can access the internal encrypted communications of corporate branches. The US has enough offensive hacking capability to "do what they need to do to have the effect they want".
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