Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. Security is paramount; digital payments are not only authorized but they must be authenticated as well. How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:35.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2024

The report shows that almost half (46%) of all Account Takeover (ATO) attacks are aimed at API endpoints. Nearly one-third (28%) of all DDoS attacks on APIs focus on financial services organizations, the most targeted industry for this type of attack. Encryption Lebin Cheng | VP, API Security More About This Author > Schema

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

For example, compromised card details are used to make unauthorized purchases online and personal details are used to take over an account or apply for a credit card in someone else’s name. Criminals use personal and financial data to impersonate customers and add apparent authenticity to a scam. Online skimming.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Many financial institutions offer free transaction alerts that notify you when charges hit your account.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

According to the researchers, SharkBot demonstrates: “…how mobile malwares are quickly finding new ways to perform fraud, trying to bypass behavioural detection countermeasures put in place by multiple banks and financial services during the last years.” ” Type and source of the infection.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like other ransomware groups, its threat actors use double extortion tactics, predominantly targeting organizations in the US in five critical infrastructure sectors: critical manufacturing, financial services, government facilities, healthcare and public health, and information technology.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

The report shows that almost half (46%) of all Account Takeover (ATO) attacks are aimed at API endpoints. Nearly one-third (28%) of all DDoS attacks on APIs focus on financial services organizations, the most targeted industry for this type of attack. Identify and protect sensitive and high-risk APIs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Cookies are a precious source of intelligence about victims’ habits and could be abused to access the person’s online accounts of the victims. . million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. The database includes 6.6 The 26 million login credentials held 1.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The cybersecurity regulation ( 23 NYCRR 500 ) adopted by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is nearly two years old. Leading up to that date, companies have had to meet several milestones including hiring a CISO, encrypting all its non-public consumer data and enabling multi-factor authentication.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2021

We also can’t forget standing administrative privileges and service accounts used by systems, services, and things. Once we spotlight these accounts, we can decide whether the risk they create is worth the value they provide. Next, we need to do a better job of securing the accounts we do need.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Then, they enter those accounts for the purpose of abusing permissions, siphoning out data, or both. You can’t access an account with recycled credentials if there aren’t any. Here are some primary methods for preventing credential stuffing attacks: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). How credential stuffing attacks work.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Supples spoke to SC Media in an interview alongside EBCS Director David Maimon, who said his research team would study the modus operandi of cybercriminals operating on the dark net and other encrypted channels, as well as the different types of fraud exist across various platforms – and how they evolve. “[We

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

It's slightly different from a standard ransomware attack—encrypting a user's files is a secondary concern. Essentially, leakware attacks demand victims pay a ransom to accomplish two things: recover their encrypted data and prevent confidential, sensitive information from being disseminated. What is leakware? According to the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2023

The MOVEit encrypts files and uses secure File Transfer Protocols to transfer data with automation, analytics and failover options. The software has been heavily used in the healthcare industry as well as thousands of IT departments in financial services and government sectors. aspx - on port 80 Access WebShell - GET /human2.aspx

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

JULY 5, 2023

Future Regulations Amongst the numerous challenges facing regulators, LRQA Nettitude anticipate that the initial focus will revolve around: Accountability : Determine who is accountable for compliance with existing regulation and the principles.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. “If they are hosting customer data on a third-party system like Amazon, it better damn well be encrypted,” Weaver said.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

million downloads per day and 9,400 stars on Git Hub, cert-manager protects cloud native workloads with TLS encryption and provides critical security for clusters. 509 certificates to authenticate and secure communication between Kubernetes workloads, containers, clusters and microservices. With over 1.5 Australia and South Africa.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Established by the main major credit card financial companies back in 2004 (American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, Mastercard and Visa), the standard has evolved over the years and is currently at version 4.0. Important Note: PCI DSS current version, Version 3.2.1, in March of 2024. .”

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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Hacking Mobile Authentication Internet 52

NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Logins without multi-factor authentication. terminal services, virtual private networks (VPNs), and remote desktops—often use weak passwords and do not require MFA. Attempt access to file and SQL servers with privileged accounts. Enable multi-factor authentication. Administrators who access IT management interfaces—e.g.,

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Summary: Yahoo believes that "state-sponsored actors" compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. First American Financial Corporation data breach (2019). Damages: charges from the New York State Department Financial Services (NYDFS). Damages: sensitive leaked account information. and Vietnam.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

In a FLASH publication issued by the FBI in coordination with DHS/CISA, the FBI says it has identified at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including organizations in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Summary: Yahoo believes that 'state-sponsored actors' compromised all of their users accounts between 2013 and 2014. First American Financial Corporation data breach (2019). Damages: charges from the New York State Department Financial Services (NYDFS). Damages: sensitive leaked account information.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

To use a service, we enter our user name and a password. But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. In part it’s because it’s part of the larger identity problem -- how do we know who’s on the other side of a connection?

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

The eight areas are: Application Control Patch Applications Configure Microsoft Office Macro Settings User Application Hardening Restrict Administrative Privileges Patch Operating Systems Multi Factor Authentication Daily Backups Each area comes with guidance to improve maturity of the area.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. These protocols need to be accounted for. Sophos found that fully 70% of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

approach in that the attackers copy and exfiltrate a company’s data just prior to encrypting it. This vulnerability allows an attacker to make an untrusted connection to Exchange server port 443, allowing them to send arbitrary HTTP requests and authenticate as the Exchange server. REvil uses the Ransomware 2.0

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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