SWIFT Customer-Endpoint Compromise (Bangladesh Bank-Style) — severe-but-plausible scenario — ITOL

Vector: Cyber · Severity: severe

Attackers compromise the bank's local SWIFT/payment-messaging endpoint (the bank's own terminal on the interbank messaging network), not the SWIFT network itself. They inject fraudulent high-value wire instructions that pass normal authentication because they originate from a trusted, legitimately credentialed terminal.