Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. for my *online banking*. Any thoughts? 6 characters.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Wire transfer fraud occurs when scammers convince a company to send money to a fraudulent account. The post Shedding AI Light on Bank Wire Transfer Fraud appeared first on Security Boulevard. While weeding out suspicious requests like this may seem rudimentary, it’s not.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

Introduction Zanubis is a banking Trojan for Android that emerged in mid-2022. Since its inception, it has targeted banks and financial entities in Peru, before expanding its objectives to virtual cards and crypto wallets. The malware operated as an overlay-based banking Trojan that abused Android’s accessibility service.

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Banking Malware Energy and Utilities Encryption 107

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram says its testing new ways to use facial recognition—both to combat scams and to help restore access to compromised accounts. The social media giant is testing the use of video selfies and facial recognition to help users get their hijacked accounts back. Is a comparison always possible?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Here’s the story of one such goof committed by Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ], a $15 billion firm that provides online banking software and other technology solutions to thousands of financial institutions. Vegh could see the message from his bank referenced a curious domain: defaultinstitution.com.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Thieves are combining SMS-based phishing attacks with new “cardless” ATMs to rapidly convert phished bank account credentials into cash. The text messages contained a link to unlock their accounts and led customers to a Web site that mimicked the legitimate Fifth Third site. Image: Mastercard.us.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2024

. “Free was “the victim of a cyberattack targeting a management tool” leading to “unauthorized access to some of the personal data associated with the accounts of certain subscribers ,” the second largest telephone operator in France confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Saturday, October 26.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. For example, the ICT industry (Information, Communication, Technology) was the 5th highest paying with an average salary of $104,874 (dollars are Aussie, take off about 30% for USD). Banking is below that. Intro: This Industry Rocks! Medical even lower.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2024

Fintech firms Wise and Affirm confirmed they were both impacted by the recent data breach suffered by Evolve Bank. Fintech companies Wise and Affirm have confirmed that they were both affected by the recent data breach at Evolve Bank. Evolve will directly contact impacted customers and financial technology partners.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Atrium Health launched an investigation into the security breach and discovered that from January 2015 to July 2019, certain online tracking technologies were active on its MyAtriumHealth (formerly MyCarolinas) Patient Portal, accessible via web and mobile. The company notified the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Jane Frankland

MAY 16, 2025

From AI-generated voices to realistic websites and stolen accounts, scams today are slick, fast, and global. Here’s a breakdown of the most widespread and damaging scams today: Impersonation Scams (51% of fraud cases) where fraudsters pose as: Banks, HMRC, DVLA, or government agencies. Couriers (e.g., Royal Mail, DHL, FedEx).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. Brookfield, Wisc.-based based Fiserv [ NASDAQ:FISV ] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.8

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The idea is that even if the user’s password gets stolen, the attacker still can’t access the user’s account without that second factor — i.e. without access to the victim’s mobile device or phone number. Don’t put them on hold while you call your bank; the scammers can get around that, too.

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SecureList

MARCH 3, 2025

Adware, the most common mobile threat, accounted for 35% of total detections. million malicious and potentially unwanted installation packages were detected, almost 69,000 of which associated with mobile banking Trojans. In August 2024, researchers at ESET described a new NFC banking scam discovered in the Czech Republic.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

Plus, the EUs DORA cyber rules for banks go into effect. Meanwhile, a report warns about overprivileged cloud accounts. IT Governance) 3 - Google: Hackers shift sights to overprivileged cloud accounts Cloud accounts that have more privileges than they should are increasingly attracting the attention of hackers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

Images from Punchmade Dev’s Twitter/X account show him displaying bags of cash and wearing a functional diamond-crusted payment card skimmer. “Listen up, I’m finna show y’all how to hit a bank,” Wire Fraud Tutorial begins. First you wanna get a bank log from a trusted site. Among them is mainpage[.]me/punchmade,

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Passwordless technology is certainly ready for prime time; innovative solutions from suppliers like Cisco’s Duo, Hypr, OneLogin and Veridium have been steadily gaining traction in corporate settings for the past few years. One bank in the U.S. Here are a few takeaways. Security + efficiency. Our brains just won’t do it.”.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2024

Resecurity uncovered a cybercriminal group that is providing a sophisticated phishing kit, named V3B, to target banking customers in the EU. “Currently, it is estimated that hundreds of cybercriminals are using this kit to commit fraud, leaving victims with empty bank accounts. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 20, 2023

3CX hired incident response firm Mandiant , which released a report on Wednesday that said the compromise began in 2022 when a 3CX employee installed a malware-laced software package distributed via an earlier software supply chain compromise that began with a tampered installer for X_TRADER , a software package provided by Trading Technologies.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM , gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal , they may face hassles or delays in recovering any lost funds, but they are almost always made whole by their financial institution. Over the past several months, authorities in multiple U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2024

On Wednesday June 12, 2024, a well-known dark web data broker and cybercriminal acting under the name “Sp1d3r” offered a significant amount of data allegedly stolen from Truist Bank for sale. Truist is a US bank holding company and operates 2,781 branches in 15 states and Washington DC. Take your time.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation. The administrator responded to this empty threat by purchasing the stolen banking data and leaking it on the forum for everyone to download.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Wall Street Journal reported that the CEO of an unnamed UK energy company received a phone call from what sounded like his boss, the CEO of a German parent company, telling him to wire €220,000 (roughly $243,000) to a bank account in Hungary.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cyber security in banking has become the frontline defense against an ever-growing wave of digital threats. With billions of dollars and sensitive data at risk, banks are under constant pressure to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals. Table of Contents Toggle What is Cyber Security in Banking?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose stolen credit card is about to be used, or whose bank account is about to be emptied. dollars using over-the-counter vendors who wired and deposited funds into bank accounts held by Liu.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Plus, Europol offers best practices for banks to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography. In addition to adopting post-quantum cryptography , banks and other financial institutions should take this opportunity to boost their cryptography management practices, according to Europol.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

There are two sides to this: 1) assessing a technology vendors cryptoagility efforts in your RFPs as a part of determining third-party tech supplier risk, 2) assessing a technology vendors capability to help you in your PQC migration as technology functionality you can use.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2020

The SBU said they found on Sanix’s computer records showing he sold databases with “logins and passwords to e-mail boxes, PIN codes for bank cards, e-wallets of cryptocurrencies, PayPal accounts, and information about computers hacked for further use in botnets and for organizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.”

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Note that for mobile banking malware, we retrospectively revised the 2023 numbers to provide more accurate statistics. We also changed the methodology for PC banking malware by removing obsolete families that no longer use Trojan banker functionality, hence the sharp drop in numbers against 2023. million detections compared to 5.84

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2025

The threat actor then exploits this data to hijack personal messaging accounts, impersonate account owners to request money transfers from the victims’ contacts, and compromise accounts with other services. Tria Stealer exfiltrates the data by sending it to various Telegram bots using the Telegram API for communication.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

MFA fatigue is simply a natural evolution in their tacticstargeting the human element instead of trying to bypass the technology itself. Cyber crooks often bank on organisations thinking of MFA as a silver bullet for account security, but it isnt.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

The DOJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint for $7.74M in crypto tied to North Korean fake IT worker schemes linked to the indictment of North Korean Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) representative Sim Hyon Sop. accounts to hide their origins. The frozen funds include cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other digital assets. million tied to the scheme.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

bank accounts. Multiple accounts are registered to that email address under the name Alexander Valerievich Grichishkin , from Cherepovets. Those clients included crooks using malware like Zeus , SpyEye , Citadel and the Blackhole exploit kit to build botnets and steal banking credentials. The domain wmpay.ru

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 12, 2025

This included sensitive military technology, classified manuals, and crucial security information, all of which were reportedly offered for sale. The FBI's year-long investigation traced Duan's payments through platforms like PayPal and Zelle, as well as encrypted messages and Chinese bank accounts, which were used to funnel the transactions.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2019

million new accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. Hy-Vee said it believes the breach does not affect payment card terminals used at its grocery store checkout lanes, pharmacies or convenience stores, as these systems rely on a security technology designed to defeat card-skimming malware.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Travelers often rely on technology to enhance vacations, like by sharing photos online or finding lodging on an app. On the go After you follow the cybersecurity to-do list before hitting the open road, there are best practices you can follow while exploring to keep your devices, data and accounts safe.

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