CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 4, 2022

A Security researcher named Volodymyr Diachenko aka Bob is claiming to have access to over 280m bank account records of Indian Citizens and warned that the data exposure could lead to an information disaster, if the Indian government led by Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narender Modi Ji doesn’t take it on a serious note.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You know how banks really, really want to avoid their customers falling victim to phishing scams? And how banks are the shining beacons of light when it comes to demonstrating security best practices? Very convincing but banks will never send texts like these. banks will never do things that look like a phish?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Experts found a new version of the Cerberus Android banking trojan that can steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA. The malware implements banking Trojan capabilities such as the use of overlay attacks, the ability to intercept SMS messages and access to the contact list.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Banks are taking revolutionary approaches to digitize and streamline the customer experience - but these measures could come with a cost without strategic cybersecurity measures. The world is changing, and the banking industry is evolving too. The Industry Digital banking is transforming the way people access and manage their finances.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Phone number spoofing involves manipulating caller ID displays to mimic legitimate phone numbers, giving scammers a deceptive veil of authenticity. Related: The rise of ‘SMS toll fraud’ The Bank of America scam serves as a prime example of how criminals exploit this technique.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With access to your personal information, bad actors can drain your bank account and damage your credit—or worse. Check out the nine tips below to discover how you can enable family protection and help prevent identity theft and credit and bank fraud. But that doesn’t mean you and your family have to become victims.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 30, 2023

The advice to impacted individuals is as follows: Get a digital password manager to help you make all passwords strong and unique If you've been reusing passwords, change them to strong and unique versions now, starting with the most important services you use Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it's available, especially for important (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

Anonymous announced that the affiliate group Black Rabbit World has leaked 28 GB of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia. This week the Anonymous hacker collective claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia and stole accessed 35,000 documents. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Central Bank of Russia). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 20, 2018

Sounds like a really good idea, but Andreas Gutmann points out an application where this could become a vulnerability: when authenticating transactions: Transaction authentication, as opposed to user authentication, is used to attest the correctness of the intention of an action rather than just the identity of a user.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2021

If you have seen the latest banking news, you may have seen that the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK recently launched a consultation on the future of open banking to set out the principal features for open banking in its next phase of implementation. The role of Open Banking. billion people across the world.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And bank cards can be stopped. Once they have the phone and the card, they register the card on the relevant bank’s app on their own phone or computer. That verification passcode is sent by the bank to the stolen phone. Once accepted, they have control of the bank account.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Chameleon Android banking trojan has undergone a formidable transformation, revealing advanced tactics and a wide target scope. Discovered by online fraud detection experts ThreatFabric, this evolving threat was initially detected in early 2023, honing in on mobile banking applications in Australia and Poland.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2023

Experts warn of an emerging Android banking trojan dubbed Nexus that was employed in attacks against 450 financial applications. Cybersecurity firm experts from Cleafy warn of an emerging Android banking trojan, named Nexus, that was employed by multiple groups in attacks against 450 financial applications.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2022

Aberebot, a known Android banking Trojan, has changed its name and returned loaded with new features. I am an Android malware developer and I want to start renting my private Android banking bot here. The post Escobar is the new Android banking Trojan we’ve met before appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

For that reason, SIM swapping can be used to get around two-factor authentication (2FA) codes sent by SMS message. Armed with an email and password—which are easily bought online— and the 2FA code, an attacker could take over the victim’s online accounts. Katz pleaded guilty before Chief U.S.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. Bank customers. Bank customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 30, 2021

The benefits of Digital First banking for the consumer are clear. Whether it’s both physical and digital card issuance, real-time card management or secure, hassle-free online payments, the services on offer to consumers when it comes to Digital First banking are almost endless. But what is the benefit of Digital First for banks?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

This is, in part, due to innovations such as contactless communications, different card bodies (such as metal or repurposed ocean plastic ) and biometric fingerprint authentication. No matter where you go, no matter which issuing bank you have, you will be able to pay with your card, in store and online, as long as they are EMV compliant.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

A shocking number of organizations — including banks and healthcare providers — are leaking private and sensitive information from their public Salesforce Community websites, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Huntington Bank has disabled the leaky TCF Bank Salesforce website. ”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. ” .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

A new version of the Xenomorph Android malware includes a new automated transfer system framework and targets 400 banks. The banking Trojan was used to target 56 European banks and steal sensitive information from the devices of their customers. Experts warn that a new variant recently discovered, tracked as Xenomorph.C,

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The American Bankers Association and other banks in the US are involved in an awareness campaign tied in with National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s called “Banks never ask that," and this is a good place to focus a campaign given the number of times we do indeed say that “banks will never ask you this.”

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Identity IQ

JULY 31, 2023

Financial Account Fraud: The Growing Threat and How to Protect Yourself IdentityIQ With the significant and growing dependence of online platforms for financial transactions, financial account fraud is becoming a growing concern. Often, account takeover criminals will try to go unnoticed.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2020

Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached or stolen. Both are avid gamers on Microsoft’s Xbox platform, and for years their father managed their accounts via his own Microsoft account.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 10, 2022

People are starting to get the fact that texts (SMS) are a weak form of multi-factor authentication (MFA). It might have been a text, or it could have been something “strong”, like a mobile authenticator app like Google Authenticator or Authy. It completely changes how authentication is done.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Researchers have discovered and analyzed a new Android banking Trojan that allows attackers to steal sensitive banking information such as user credentials, personal information, current balance, and even to perform gestures on the infected device. ” Type and source of the infection. ” Type and source of the infection.

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SecureList

MAY 17, 2021

Bizarro is yet another banking Trojan family originating from Brazil that is now found in other regions of the world. Attempts have now been made to steal credentials from customers of 70 banks from different European and South American countries. The codenames are bank names written in leetspeak. ” ).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

Bank patrons in their 20s and 30s, who grew up blanketed with digital screens, have little interest in visiting a brick-and-mortar branch, nor interacting with a flesh-and-blood teller. This truism is pushing banks into unchartered territory. So banks are all in. LaSalla: Back in the day it was hardware tokens for banks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

When Genesis customers purchase a bot, they’re purchasing the ability to have all of the victim’s authentication cookies loaded into their browser, so that online accounts belonging to that victim can be accessed without the need of a password, and in some cases without multi-factor authentication.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. Attackers exploited the flaw in the SS7 protocol to defeat the 2FA authentication used by Metro Bank to protect its customers. ” said the Bank spokesman. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2022

SharkBot banking malware was able to evade Google Play Store security checks masqueraded as an antivirus app. SharkBot is a banking trojan that has been active since October 2021, it allows to steal banking account credentials and bypass multi-factor authentication mechanisms. sellsourcecode.supercleaner).

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Experts found a tainted app in the Google Play store that was downloaded by more than 10,000 users and that was delivering the Cerberus banking Trojan. The malware implements banking Trojan capabilities such as the use of overlay attacks, the ability to intercept SMS messages and access to the contact list. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2023

Godfather malware includes banking trojans used by different threat actors to target Android mobile devices. In fact, malicious actors gain access to their financial accounts. Initial variants were reported beginning of March 2021. (1) Figure 2 shows an example of this lure.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

We all authenticate ourselves multiple times in a day, whether online shopping, logging into our bank account or booking flights. And with authentication, we confirm our digital identities so often that it doesn’t seem like a security action; instead, it seems like a step in the process of gaining access to services/resources.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2024

He used the ID to get a job at a fast-food restaurant and to get a Colorado bank account. Woods didn’t want to pay the debt and so went after the account numbers for any accounts he had open so he could close them. At that point, the bank employee called Keirans, whose phone number was associated with the accounts.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

study tested the security of 13 of the UK’s most popular online banking sites between September and November 2022. In fact, by 2023, the number of internet users is set to increase by 275% , creating more targets for online banking fraudsters. A recent Which? Be wary of transfers: Only transfer money to parties you trust.

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