The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Te P\u016btea Matua) is responding to a breach of a third-party file sharing service used to share information with external stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governor Adrian Orr says the breach is contained but it will take time to determine the impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are actively working with domestic and international cybersecurity experts and other relevant authorities as part of our investigation. This includes the GCSB\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre which has been notified and is providing guidance and advice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have been advised by the third-party provider that this wasn\u2019t a specific attack on the Reserve Bank, and other users of the file sharing application were also compromised.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kevin Reed, CISO at Acronis, said: \u201cThere\u2019s no way to trace the breach back to the perpetrator until the investigation is complete \u2013 it could be anything between a state sponsored attack or a simple automated attack on a misconfigured server\/system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHowever, government entities aren\u2019t known for paying ransoms, so threatening to leak data will likely not be profitable for the attacker \u2013 their goal could be simply to create mayhem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne way this could happen is if an employee of the third-party file sharing service fell victim to a phishing or malspam attack that resulted in either stolen credentials or installation of a trojan, which provided access to the systems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Te P\u016btea Matua) is responding to a breach of a third-party file sharing service used to share information with external stakeholders. Governor Adrian Orr says the breach is contained but it will take time to determine the impact. \u201cWe are actively working with domestic and international cybersecurity experts and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463,6,18,55,53,44,54],"tags":[1173,1515,428,174,1514,77,1513],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apac","category-industry-verticals-banking-finance","category-enterprise-security","category-oceania","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-acronis","tag-adrian-orr","tag-bank","tag-cybersecurity","tag-kevin-reed","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-reserve-bank"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}