Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2022

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , 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. Black Basta has been active since April 2022, like other ransomware operations, it implements a double-extortion attack model. .

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1973 – Embezzlement — A teller at a local New York bank uses a computer to embezzle over $2 million dollars. 2003-2008 — Albert Gonzalez — Albert Gonzales is arrested in 2003 for being part of ShadowCrew, a group that stole and then sold card numbers online, and works with authorities in exchange for his freedom.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. 2008 Beijing. So too is the possibility for scammers to crawl out of the woodwork. 1996 Atlanta.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. hVNC Plugin – Allows controlling the victim machine through a remote VNC connection, for example to perform bank transactions on his behalf.

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Banking Advertising Passwords Malware 119

SecureWorld News

APRIL 12, 2021

CBS News Anchor Scott Pelley asked the Fed Chairman about the odds of a systemic crisis like the one we saw in 2008, where banks and others needed bailouts. With this in mind, it was amazing to see Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speak so boldly about cyberrisk—especially the context in which he was speaking about it.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Most of the campaigns discovered by the researchers leverages phishing attacks to retrieve banking credentials in Brazil. Currently, Novidade is used in different campaigns, experts believe it has been sold to multiple threat actors or its source code leaked. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of Data Protection Day in Europe. It is important to understand that nowadays almost all our data – including our personal data, like banking information, medical records, and personal emails – are stored and processed in the cloud.

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Data privacy Data breaches Social Engineering Technology 127

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. The European Central Bank is one of the youngest central banks in Europe.

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Banking Unstructured Data B2B Financial Services 71

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2019

” The pivot comes at a time where the nation is facing several security crises and reasonable fears that almost anything that runs on a computer — banks, voting machines, and critical infrastructure — can be compromised or damaged by cyberattacks. ” The State of Cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). and later Exchange 2013, 2016, or 2019 Windows Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, Server 2019.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The second one, tracked as CVE-2019.0880, affects Windows 7 and Server 2008. Analysts have also likened the campaign to the Anunak / Carbanak campaign, which also targeted Russian and Ukrainian Banks. The issue resides in the way splwow64 (Thunking Spooler APIs) handles certain calls.

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Government Advertising Passwords Banking 108

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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Malware Education Banking Media 98

Security Boulevard

MARCH 16, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is one of the greatest collapses since the great depression, coming years to the day after Bear Sterns’ collapse in 2008. Despite the government stepping in to insure deposits, the fall of SVB bank will result in a rush of organizations moving to other banking institutions to preserve.

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Banking Insurance Government 40

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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Banking Cryptocurrency Financial Services Risk 52

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2022

In one email, a victim received an appropriate form that their company used for updating banking information. After processing the change of banking information, Victim A sent the next construction payment of $525,282.39 to a SunTrust bank account rather than to Lucas Construction! Kindly let us know once updated. .

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Banking Accountability Scams Marketing 64

Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2023

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

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 21 Jul. Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) was concluded on 1 Jun. 2008 , 29 Nov. 2011 ) Other information: Taliban member responsible for Jawzjan Province in Northern Afghanistan until 2008. 2001 (amended on 3 Sep.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 25, 2021

In the last year, the state has seen a cyberattack take out the top regulatory agency, a data breach compromise the personal information of thousands of applicants for children’s health insurance, and a cyberattack that resulted in confidential information of 58,000 unemployment applicants being stolen, including SSNs and bank information.

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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. Protecting your data can help prevent an unauthorized user from gaining access to your credit card details, bank account information, and other data that could result in cybercriminal activities and loss. Credit card details.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2021

In this scenario, we’ve got a small financial organization, maybe a regional bank. The application team added a front-end web interface in 2008, but it’s been in maintenance mode since then. They have a legacy client/server application handling customer loan data that uses stored procedures heavily for back-end processing.

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Risk Architecture Banking 96

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Many banks and financial applications, including Mint, now employ Face ID or Touch ID,” said Dhapte. In 2008, Illinois became the first U.S. However, passkeys are a form of a password; to some extent, users have been using them for some time. They are nothing that most people haven’t seen or used before. In the U.S.,

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Passwords Password Management Authentication Technology 125

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.

Banking 52

Banking Risk Technology Marketing 52

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. Requirements 3.4.1

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Financial Services Data breaches Accountability Encryption 78

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 29, 2023

Here’s a typical comment from a banking IT manager, who calls the firewalls “incredibly easy to deploy.” Learn more about Juniper Networks Bottom Line: Palo Alto Firewalls Palo Alto Networks has been a leader in the market for next-generation firewalls since the company coined the term in 2008, now 15 years ago.

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Firewall Marketing Engineering Network Security 98

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2008, Myspace was the world’s largest social networking site. 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. 29 milliseconds to crack them.

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Data breaches Media Passwords Accountability 52

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In total, 1,000 consumer facing websites were analyzed, including the Internet Retailer Top 500, FDIC 100 banks, top social networking companies, top 50 news and media companies, government agencies and leading Internet of Things (IoT) providers focused on home automation and wearable technologies.

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Consumer Protection eCommerce Internet Internet 40

Security Boulevard

JULY 12, 2022

Active since 2008, Qakbot, also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is a common trojan malware designed to steal passwords. Qakbot threat actors are also known to target bank customers and use the access they gain through compromised credentials to spy on financial operations and gain valuable intel.

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Malware Antivirus Banking Passwords 98

NopSec

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In terms of compliance, penetration testing engagements are a requirements for organizations that would like to be compliant with the following regulations: PCI standards – Standard 11.3 , SOX, HIPAA, GLBA and other banking regulations. since 2008.

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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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Technology Education Marketing Insurance 279

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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Technology Energy and Utilities Authentication Cyber Attacks 40

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.

Energy and Utilities 59

Energy and Utilities Authentication Data breaches VPN 59

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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Cybercrime Banking Small Business Accountability 285

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.

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Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

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.

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 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

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