# Darknet diaries episode 120 - Kuwait malware researcher - The Gulf region has pretty powerful threat actors - Security researchers can get a special premium membership to virustotal to analyze new samples of malware - You can cross reference samples with samples you already have like a sort of signature search - Found banking malware uploaded from Kuwait - Lots of security researchers openly discuss on Twitter - Now where was related to the swift money transfer system - You can run strings in a Linux system to find human readable words in a file - Found the word GBKadmin - Malware wasn't targeting a specific bank - The Gulf Bank of Kuwait later had a public statement about losing IT operations for a period of time - GBK lost 9 million in operations during the incident - Days later the bank fired their general manager of IT without explanation - Man went on a vacation with his fam The police seemed fine with it but then proceeded to charge him when he got back home. Nice - GBK seemed to be attempting an entrapment - The UN had to report on Swift network attacks with banking malware - North Korea found to be hacking tons of banks along with Kuwait -