SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2021

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center says it has observed new activity from the cybercrime group, mainly password spay and brute-force attacks. Plus, Microsoft says it has uncovered that one of its customer service systems was under an ongoing attack and being used to launch highly targeted attacks against some Microsoft customers.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2021

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center says it has observed new activity from the cybercrime group, mainly password spray and brute-force attacks. Plus, Microsoft says it has uncovered that one of its customer service systems was under an ongoing attack and being used to launch highly targeted attacks against some Microsoft customers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. “After we figured out what was going on, we were left asking ourselves how the crooks had obtained her last three transactions without breaking into her account online. .

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2021

Cybercrime is on the rise across all levels of industry and government. Nowhere is that more apparent than in financial services, where firms like banks and credit unions experience attacks nearly 300x more often than other industries.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. In the days that followed, the DFS and 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. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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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. The OTP interception service featured earlier this year — Otp[.]agency

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. Stolen data included corporate files and personal information Nissan refused to pay the ransom and the cybercrime group published the alleged stolen files.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

According to breach notification letters , the exposed customer data includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and financial account details. As financial institutions increasingly rely on networks of third-party partners, shoring up security across the entire supply chain is critical.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The experts called it ‘prepositioning’ to analyze the response from financial organizations globally and the reaction of the market. LockBit specifically targeted ICBC Financial Services (ICBC FS), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the state-owned lender, which plays a critical role in the world of international finance.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

.” The arrest is the result of Operation Guardian led by AFP which became aware of a number of text messages demanding some Optus customers transfer $2000 to a bank account or face their personal information being used for financial crimes. The database belonging to the company was leaked on a cybercrime forum.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Resecurity’s HUNTER (HUMINT) unit spotted the BianLian , White Rabbit , and Mario ransomware gangs collaborating in a joint extortion campaign targeting publicly-traded financial services firms. The attack leveraged multiple Residential IP Proxies based in the APAC region.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The company pointed out that exposed files did not contain passwords that could be used to access financial accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Advantage and Argus seem to be the same company working under two different names, they offer funding and startup capital to business owners without access to traditional lending and financial services. SecurityAffairs – financial documents, cybercrime). The researchers discovered the unsecured database in December 2019.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

The credit union said the investigation that fueled the lawsuit was prompted by a 2018 KrebsOnSecurity report about glaring security weaknesses in a Fiserv platform that exposed personal and financial details of customers across hundreds of bank Web sites. Brookfield, Wisc.-based billion in earnings last year.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Someone in your organization hit send on a wire transfer for $21 million—and afterward, they discovered they sent the payment to an account controlled by cybercriminals. Since BEC attacks can happen so swiftly, it is imperative to act quickly—rapid-fire quick—when it is suspected a financial transaction could be compromised.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

Astamirov controlled multiple email addresses, and IP addresses, and other online provider accounts that were employed in LockBit ransomware attacks. This LockBit-related arrest, the second in six months, underscores the Justice Department’s unwavering commitment to hold ransomware actors accountable,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. “In

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) revealed that a data breach its has suffered impacted 14 million customers. The data breach suffered by Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is much more serious than initially estimated. ” said Latitude Financial CEO Ahmed Fahour.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Moreover, it will look at cybercriminal activities related to circumventing identity and authentication mechanisms for these innovations, including the development of synthetic identities, identity theft and account takeovers. Such discoveries would no doubt prove useful to the financial services community at large.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The trojan allows to hijack users’ mobile devices and steal funds from online banking and cryptocurrency accounts. Once the banking Trojan is installed on the victim’s device, threat actors can steal sensitive banking information through the abuse of Accessibility Services (i.e. ” concludes the report.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. Disable unused ports.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2021

Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. DeFi attacks are becoming very profitable for threat actors, according to a recent post published by CipherTrace they totalled 361 million By July 2021 and accounted for 76% of all major hacks in 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2020

A great example of this, Keil points out, is the Open Financial Exchange ( OFX , ) the data-stream format that enables wire transfers to be carried out across the Internet. OFX is the financial service industry’s standard for transferring funds,” he says. It’s a series of APIs that allow banks to connect to each other.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The majority of the identified fraudulent projects were related to financial services (FIs), oil & gas, renewable energy, EV batteries, electric vehicles, healthcare, semiconductors, and world-recognized investment corporations and funds with a global presence.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

Other top 4 targeted industries include Manufacturing, Insurance, Technology, and Financial Services seeing 15%, 9%, 7%, and 6% of the campaign traffic respectively.” com (Cloudflare’s Web3 services). The content of the message attempt to trick the recipient into scanning the code to verify their account.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

In a classified report cited by Chosun, the US National Intelligence Service (DNI) found that North Korea was financing its ‘priority policies’, such as nuclear and missile development, through cybercrime. correspondent or payable-through account sanctions.” ” continues the announcement. ” We are in the final!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

. “As of January 2022, the FBI has identified at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including entities in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors,” reads the FBI’s flash alert.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

“On December 13, 2018, we observed another large ServHelper “downloader” campaign targeting retail and financial services customers.” ” The attacks leveraging the two malware were not targeted in nature attackers aimed at financial services organizations worldwide. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

According to a report from McAfee Enterprise and FireEye titled, "Cybercrime in a Pandemic World: The Impact of COVID-19," 81% of global organizations have experienced increased cyberthreats, and 79% experienced downtime from an attack during a peak season. Cybersecurity attacks are on the rise, especially since the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” “The technical infiltration and disruption is only the beginning of a series of actions against LockBit and their affiliates.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In wider action coordinated by Europol, two LockBit actors have been arrested this morning in Poland and Ukraine, over 200 cryptocurrency accounts linked to the group have been frozen.” . “The technical infiltration and disruption is only the beginning of a series of actions against LockBit and their affiliates.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies as well as the prevalence of various Windows and Android-based financial malware. The term is also used to describe malware seeking access to financial organizations’ IT infrastructures. Financial Phishing. financial services company, Wells Fargo.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2021

HUMAN’s rebrand from White Ops was also central to its growth in the first half of 2021, marking a renewed pledge to carry out the team’s long-held mission of protecting the integrity of the internet by disrupting the economics of cybercrime.

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