When a subsidiary of the world’s largest lender proposes to settle trades via a USB stick shuttled between New York trading floors by a runner, it ought to set alarm bells ringing. That was one contingency discussed last week when ICBC Financial Services — the financial services arm of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China — was hit by ransomware software, which prevented it from settling transactions in the $25tn US Treasury market. The hack was eventually contained by disconnecting its systems, alongside a $9bn capital injection.
當全球最大銀行的一家子公司提議通過一個由投遞員在紐約各個交易大廳之間穿梭遞送的U盤來結算交易時，這應該敲響警鐘。上週，中國工商銀行(ICBC)的美國金融服務子公司——工銀金融服務(ICBC Financial Services)遭到勒索軟體攻擊，導致其無法在25兆美元的美國國債市場進行交易結算，於是上述方式成了被討論的應急方式之一。該行最終通過斷開其系統並注資90億美元遏制了此次駭客攻擊的影響。
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