Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2022

Victim A notified the FBI that someone was spoofing Victim B, by sending emails from the address "accounts@lucasconstruct.com." (The In one email, a victim received an appropriate form that their company used for updating banking information. to a SunTrust bank account rather than to Lucas Construction!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

The IT giant reported that at least one China linked APT group, tracked as HAFNIUM , chained these vulnerabilities to access on-premises Exchange servers to access email accounts, and install backdoors to maintain access to victim environments. Microsoft provides the following system requirements: PowerShell 3 or later IIS 7.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap , a conjunction of the Russian word for accountant “Buhgalter” and the English word “trap”. The issue resides in the way splwow64 (Thunking Spooler APIs) handles certain calls.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. When you add this type of data to cloud storage, ensure your account is protected with more than just a password. Credit card details. Your address and phone numbers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

QBot has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials, and other financial information from the victims. In early April, Kaspersky experts observed a surge in attacks that QBot malware attacks (aka Qakbot , QuackBot, and Pinkslipbot ).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 15, 2024

This has led to a total shift in financial products and banking-related services. The recent advancements in AI could reinvent the way banks and other organisations collect and process structured and unstructured data. What about sharing accounts and login credentials? Who needs access rights?

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Financial Sector: Barclays Bank: In November 2024, Barclays was fined 40 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to disclose 322 million in payments to Qatar Holding during its 2008 capital raising. This deception went undetected for 20 months due to significant weaknesses in the bank’s systems and controls.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2023

Investing in People Doesn’t Take AI AI is not an investment; ask any bank. Decisions made by people powered by artificial intelligence should keep the accountability and responsibility of the organization the same. Watching banks collapse didn’t start yesterday or the day before. Now, jump ahead to the mortgage crisis of 2008.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Many banks and financial applications, including Mint, now employ Face ID or Touch ID,” said Dhapte. The account recovery element of passkey is another double-edged sword. While a consumer application will almost certainly be pleased to outsource account recovery to Apple, Google, or Microsoft, many administrators may not be.

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Passwords Password Management Authentication Technology 125

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The deadline is fast approaching The PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was developed in 2008 to standardize the security controls that need to be enforced by businesses processing payment card data in order to protect cardholder data and sensitive authentication data wherever it is stored, processed, or transmitted. Requirement 3.2

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2008, Myspace was the world’s largest social networking site. Peace stole data from over 360 million Myspace accounts. The stolen data was several years old, but it is still valuable on the dark web because people often reuse passwords for multiple sites and accounts, from online banking to eCommerce accounts.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Goldman Sachs’ Compliance Culture Overhaul Following the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs implemented fundamental changes through its Business Standards Committee (BSC). The bank established comprehensive review processes and enhanced corporate accountability measures.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Banking is below that. It also created a forced savings plan for us; money in real estate is not "liquid" so you can't readily draw it out of a savings account on a whim and loans need to be paid on time each month or banks start getting cranky. Medical even lower.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Up until recently, central banks have acted as the metaphorical custodian of trust, employing complex processes that force populations to participate in bank accounts and credit cards to earn trust benefits, like credit scores. Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S. Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2025

Background Since 2008, Verizons annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has helped organizations understand evolving cyber threats. The banking, finance and insurance sector performed far better with an average of 45 days to close out this vulnerability.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

“ Dridex “) to steal banking credentials from employees at hundreds of small- to mid-sized companies in the United States and Europe. Money mule recruiters tend to target people looking for part-time, remote employment, and the jobs usually involve little work other than receiving and forwarding bank transfers.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. So usually when you have when you transact money, you have banks. What does it mean. It's basically 2017.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

For example through the use of both the Finnish and US CERT the details of Heartbleed were given to several companies ahead of public disclosure, making sure that banking and ecommerce websites that used OpenSSL were patched in time. Wait, what? So that’s it? It’s a 10. And it’s easy to exploit.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

For example through the use of both the Finnish and US CERT the details of Heartbleed were given to several companies ahead of public disclosure, making sure that banking and ecommerce websites that used OpenSSL were patched in time. Wait, what? So that’s it? It’s a 10. And it’s easy to exploit.

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Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you have a bunch of passwords and manually checking them all would be painful, give this a go: If you use 1Password account you now have a brand new Watchtower integrated with @haveibeenpwned API. If one of yours shows up there, you really want to stop using it on any service you care about. Thank you, @troyhunt ??

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

It has operated since 2008. Using this information, carbon ACH transfers funds to bank accounts under their control, completing their mission. But then what, what we wanted to do was then the next round to compare that against something that would be a higher bar for us to go after. Vamosi: they chose APT 29.

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Government Marketing Malware Technology 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

It has operated since 2008. Using this information, carbon ACH transfers funds to bank accounts under their control, completing their mission. But then what, what we wanted to do was then the next round to compare that against something that would be a higher bar for us to go after. Vamosi: they chose APT 29.

Government 52

Government Marketing Malware Technology 52

SecureList

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Now, as we predicted in last year’s forecast , many are returning to their usual ways of life, visiting stores and withdrawing cash, and the threat of PoS/ATM malware is also making a comeback: the cybercriminals are already implementing new ways to steal from banks and organizations, and the number of attacks is on the rise, too.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Its operators seem to leverage vulnerabilities in external-facing servers while utilizing compromised account credentials to gain access and spread the malware further. Current analyses of HermeticWiper reveal that the malware is being delivered in highly-targeted attacks in Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania. But here, the stakes have changed.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. For malicious keyloggers outside your organization, initial access to a device or user’s account would be necessary.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

Making passwordless technology ubiquitous Chrysta: Consumers are already starting to unlock their phones, computers and accounts with their faces and fingerprints. What started in 2008 as mobile transactions with your fingerprint later were ratified into specs, such as FIDO and FIDO2. So I trust the math.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. This information can range from what websites you visit to your download history to your bank PIN. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Famously attributed to the SolarWinds and StellarParticle attack campaigns, this group has been operating since about 2008 and has targets ranging across most of the planet, including both the Democratic and Republican National Committees in the US. APT29 AKA CozyBear : This APT is associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.

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Social Engineering Backups Malware Ransomware 72

Krebs on Security

JULY 13, 2023

The message included links to files containing highly sensitive information, including snippets of leaked user account data, maps of internal AshleyMadison company servers, employee network account information, company bank account data and salary information. A snippet of the message left behind by the Impact Team.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2021

In 2008, Levashov was secretly indicted for his spamming and Federal agents were deployed to Moscow to ask for Levashov. 10APR2013 - " New Spam Attack accounts for 62% of our spam! ". 12AUG2016 - " Kelihos botnet sending Panda Zeus to German and UK Banking Customers ". ". 03MAR2010 - " Spamming Botnets - Strategies welcome " .

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Banking Ransomware Government Malware 85

Schneier on Security

MAY 22, 2025

Political teams can point to data that justifies this barrage, but the effectiveness of voter contact has been steadily declining since 2008. The group held design sprints for political tech tools, such as canvassing apps and phone banking sites. Intuitively, we know this approach has long-term costs.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

But according to denizens of several Russian-language cybercrime forums that have been following his case in the Israeli news media, Burkov was by all accounts an elite cybercrook who primarily operated under the hacker alias “ K0pa.” ” A banner that ran on top of the Verified cybercrime forum for many years.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Infamous cyber opsattributed to Russia-backed hackers fall into a pattern that’s worth noting: • C yber a ttack s on Estonia (2007) Websites of Estonian banks, media outlets and government bodies get knocked down in a dispute over a Soviet-era war memorial. •

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