Three hackers from a North Korean cyber intelligence agency have been charged in the US with masterminding a €13million heist on Bank of Valletta.
The US Justice Department unsealed a federal indictment on Wednesday, charging three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of cyberattacks.
The group stole and extorted more than $1.3 billion (€1.07 billion) of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies across the globe, including BOV.
Hackers posed as the French stock market regulator to break into BOV’s IT systems and walk away with millions of euros in 2019.
In May of 2019 the bank said it had recovered €10 million of the stolen funds.
Konrad Mizzi lawyer mooted MSS deal for Hofstra over Theuma recordings
Konrad Mizzi’s lawyer offered to negotiate with MSS over Theuma recordings taken by Dutch national
11 February 2021, 5:49pm
by Nicole Meilak
Jean Paul Sammut (right) and his conversation with Julian Hofstra, requesting sole legal representation. Sammut denied any link between this conversation and the interests of his client, Konrad Mizzi (left)
The lawyer to former Labour minister Konrad Mizzi personally offered to negotiate some form of immunity with the Malta Security Services for Dutch inmate Julian Hofstra.
Hofstra, 21, says he has recordings he made of Melvin Theuma, the middleman turned State witness in the Caruana Galizia assassination, whom he befriended at the white taxi stand he ran at the Portomaso Hilton sometime before 2019.