Almost a decade after his offences were committed, Ricky David Gillespie, a former senior financial planner with the CBA's subsidiary Commonwealth Financial Planning Limited, has had a conviction recorded against him for forgery. In December last year, Mr Gillespie was fined A$3,000 with no conviction recorded, a result appealed by the DPP on the basis that it was manifestly inadequate. The appeal was heard on 14 September, with her Honour Judge Rosengren ordering that a conviction be recorded against Gillespie on the basis that this was an offence of dishonesty, committed by a person occupying a position of trust, noting that when confronted by CBA staff over his actions, Gillespie denied any wrongdoing and continued forging clients signatures and falsifying records until April 2009. Researchers investigating a group of North Korean state-backed hackers have found Australia's SWIFT bank codes and IP addresses in they malware the group has used, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. US security firm FireEye raised the alarm about the hacking group, dubbed APT38, yesterday, saying it had stolen millions of dollars by infiltrating the computer systems of banks since 2014 - and is still an active threat. AP reports that FireEye's head of global intelligence said APT38 is leveraging the skills and technology of a state-backed espionage campaign. Once it has infiltrated a computer system, on average it observes for 155 days to learn all about the systems before fraudulently transferring money and using aggressive malware to "wreak havoc and cover its tracks". FireEye said the hacking group has attempted to steal US$1.1 billion, with its biggest heist US$81 billion stolen from the central bank of Bangladesh.