FireEye Inc., another cybersecurity firm, described a similar series of attacks in a report published about five months ago. (Photo: Shutterstock)
(Bloomberg) — It's a short — but startling — passage tucked inside Microsoft Corp.'s periodic cybersecurity report: State-sponsored hackers attacked several financial services firms and stole “large sums of cash.”
The account provides another reminder that hackers are successfully preying on parts of an industry where customer confidence is paramount, and that's sometimes reluctant to disclose serious attacks.
Yet even as the report lays out what happened, it omits sensitive details, such as which government backed the assault or which firms were targeted.
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