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The
move comes as members of ABS, which include Singaporean and
foreign banks, have individually engaged the Society for
Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) since
news of the attacks emerged, it said.
"ABS, for its part, has invited SWIFT to a meeting in early June
to share its experience in managing the incidents in Bangladesh
and Vietnam," it said an email to Reuters.
Earlier this week Singapore's central bank said it had asked
banks to maintain a high level of security for their critical IT
systems following recent cyber attacks involving the SWIFT
financial messaging system.
Other central banks such as Bank of England are also urging
banks to increase cyber security.
Representatives of SWIFT could not be immediately reached for
comment.
The FBI, authorities in Dhaka and private forensic experts are
investigating the February cyber heist in Bangladesh where
thieves raided a central bank account kept at the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, stealing $81 million.
They installed malware at Bangladesh Bank's Dhaka headquarters
that hid traces of their attack to delay discovery so they could
access the funds, according to police and private security
firms.
The theft was followed by attacks on other lenders in the
region, with Vietnam's Tien Phong Bank saying earlier this week
it had interrupted an attempted cyber heist that involved the
use of fraudulent SWIFT messages.
(Reporting by Saeed Azhar; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
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