Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The healthcare sector has been particularly hard-hit, accounting for over 30% of the total breaches. Financial services have also faced significant incidents, with many institutions relying heavily on third-party technology partners to deliver essential services.

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Risk Healthcare Education Cybersecurity 81

SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

The threat actors behind Zanubis continue to refine its code adding features, switching between encryption algorithms, shifting targets, and tweaking social engineering techniques to accelerate infection rates. This targeting strategy reflected a focused campaign aimed at compromising users of financial services through credential theft.

Banking 98

Banking Malware Encryption Energy and Utilities 98

Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

If you’re part of the financial services ecosystem hereor interact with businesses regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Servicesyouve likely come across the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation. Heres a step-by-step guide: Access the NYDFS Portal: Log in or create an account on the NYDFS Cybersecurity Portal.

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Cybersecurity Financial Services Risk Encryption 52

Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Financial services industry: Banks, insurance companies and other financial organizations offer a wealth of opportunity for hackers who can use stolen bank account and credit card information for their own financial gain. They can open accounts in your name, apply for loans, and even file false tax returns.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Passwords eCommerce 75

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

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. Check out tips for adopting AI securely from the World Economic Forum.

Banking 68

Banking Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Ransomware 68

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit. Close Home Tech Security Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak?

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Passwords Data breaches Password Management Identity Theft 106

Webroot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The rise of AI-driven phishing and social engineering, increased targeting of critical infrastructure, and the emergence of more sophisticated fileless malware are all trends that have shaped the cybersecurity battlefield this year. By August 2024, RansomHub had breached at least 210 victims across various critical U.S.

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Malware Ransomware Healthcare Passwords 117

Centraleyes

JULY 13, 2025

The Cyber Risk Institute (CRI) Profile is a cybersecurity and risk management framework designed specifically for the financial services sector. The Profile covers the following core functions: Govern: Risk governance, accountability, and oversight. community banks, state banks) and (b) providers of low criticality services.

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Financial Services Cyber Risk Banking Risk 52

Zero Day

JULY 13, 2025

How to access a team of personalized assistants "Effective governance frameworks for AI agents combine clear accountability, robust oversight, and alignment with regulatory standards," says Priest. This includes robust data pipelines, APIs, and governance frameworks to help agents operate reliably and responsibly at scale.

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Artificial Intelligence Digital transformation Government Technology 139

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. The first question asks, Did the request actually come from an authorized owner or signer on the account?

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Banking Accountability Scams Passwords 302

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

they then began to use the stolen credentials to launch automated account takeovers. “So So if you were participating in that environment, and you were looking for a relationship, then your account might get taken over. We were able to stop the account takeovers that would then sometimes lead to these romance scams.”

Mobile 266

Mobile Digital transformation Scams Accountability 266

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Octo Tempest is believed to be a group of native English speaking cybercriminals that uses social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations all over the world. This can be done in a number of ways, but the most common ones involve social engineering attacks on the victim's carrier.

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Social Engineering Engineering Ransomware Backups 119

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The majority of intercepted credentials by Agent Tesla related to financial services, online-retailers, e-government systems and personal and business e-mail accounts. . Researchers found active instances of Agent Tesla and developed a mechanism to enumerate the affected clients and extract compromised data.

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Cyber threats Engineering Financial Services Malware 145

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.

Banking 144

Banking Mobile Social Engineering Malware 144

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

after receiving what looked like a bill for search engine optimization (SEO) services rendered on behalf of their domain names. The story concluded that this dubious service had been scamming people and companies for more than a decade, and promised a Part II to explore who was behind Web Listings.

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Scams Marketing Internet Internet 329

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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Authentication Social Engineering Phishing Banking 113

Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Security professionals agree that passwords are low hanging fruit for cybercriminals and can even be the keys to the kingdom when the compromised passwords belong to privileged accounts. Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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Threat Detection Authentication Accountability Data breaches 138

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

ybercriminals behind the PerSwaysion campaign gained access to many confidential corporate MS Office365 emails of mainly financial service companies, law firms, and real estate groups. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours. Gone in 24 Hours.

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Phishing Accountability Financial Services Cloud Migration 139

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2020

-based application security vendor, today is launching a new solution, called API Sentinel, designed to help companies jump in and start proactively mitigating API risks, without necessarily having to slow down their innovation steam engine. OFX is the financial service industry’s standard for transferring funds,” he says.

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Digital transformation Internet Internet Hacking 178

SC Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

“An attacker can recreate the corporate log-in page and deliver a phishing message to the individual that prompts them to log into their account. As part of the blog, Lookout also linked to its Financial Services Threat Report , which was authored by Schless.

Mobile 126

Mobile Phishing Banking Financial Services 126

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. The software engineer Tillie Kottmann was informed by an anonymous source that the Git server was exposed online and accessible to anyone using the default login credentials admin/admin.

Data breaches 134

Data breaches Identity Theft Financial Services Cybercrime 134

Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Image Source: AI Generated Recent data breaches have exposed sensitive information from millions of customers across healthcare, financial services, and technology sectors. The compromise exposed sensitive card information, including account numbers, expiration dates, and cardholder names.

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Data breaches Healthcare Social Engineering Financial Services 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

Social engineering – specifically malicious cyber campaigns delivered via email – remain the primary source of an organization’s vulnerability to attack. Social engineering is a profitable business for hackers – according to estimates, around 3.4 billion phishing e-mails get delivered every day.

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Cyber Attacks Social Engineering Scams Phishing 119

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Two-factor authentication is a great way to protect your online accounts, and we always recommend you turn it on. Yesterday, security intelligence firm, Intel 147, revealed it had noticed an uptick of activity in threat actors providing access to services in Telegram that circumvent two-factor authentication (2FA) methods.

Banking 105

Banking Authentication Social Engineering Passwords 105

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The nonstop intensity of these attacks is vividly illustrated by the fact that malicious bot communications now account for one-third of total Internet traffic. Bad actors are standing up these virtual bots by the million, cheaply and stealthily, via Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Shifting security challenge.

Digital transformation 140

Digital transformation B2C Mobile B2B 140

Security Boulevard

AUGUST 16, 2021

The prevalence of digital fraud attempts on businesses and consumers continues to rise as malicious actors are shifting their focus in 2021 from financial services to travel and leisure and other industries. globally.

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Financial Services Social Engineering Accountability Security Awareness 102

Adam Levin

AUGUST 21, 2019

Bob from accounting goes on vacation with his laptop, and the next thing you know, millions of customers get hacked. Tortoises have no finances and, taken as a genus, they rarely have names and social media accounts. When they do have names and Instagram accounts, there’s a hackable human somewhere nearby. Attacks happen.

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Phishing Accountability Hacking Cybersecurity 138

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Financial services are the main target for cybercriminals, so the threat for the organizations and their customers is severe. The leak also affected Bloom Money and Admiral Money – two financial companies based in the UK, and Reed, which is the UK’s top recruitment agency. env) belonging to idkit.com, owned by OCR Labs.

Banking 98

Banking Financial Services Identity Theft Accountability 98

Cisco Security

APRIL 20, 2021

What industries do hackers primarily target for financial gain? Financial services should come as no surprise, but the hospitality industry is up there too. Our latest innovation is behavioral protection , extending the depth of Secure Endpoint’s sophisticated prevention engine.

Financial Services 132

Financial Services CISO Architecture Malware 132

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

The first news that is trending is associated with financial service provider PayPal. MailChimp, the automation based marketing company, is the third to hit the news headlines on Google as its servers have become a victim of a social engineering attack that led to a data leak.

Cyber Attacks 106

Cyber Attacks Social Engineering Financial Services Encryption 106

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.

Phishing 98

Phishing Energy and Utilities Insurance Manufacturing 98

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In fact, 62 percent of professionals admitted to sharing passwords over text messages or email and 46 percent said their company shares passwords for accounts used by multiple people. And social engineering can crack even more considering how many people include the names of their families and birthdays. Identity access management.

Authentication 104

Authentication Passwords Mobile Accountability 104

SecureList

AUGUST 16, 2022

Overall, more than 100 networks were abused, giving threat actors a foothold on financial service firms, oil and gas companies, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, government and other organizations. Also, the extension modifies the browser’s default search engine to search.myway[.]com, FB Stealer.

Adware 118

Adware Engineering Malware Software 118

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This report states that 59% of organizations fail to maintain strict user account lifecycle management, leaving credentials that are no longer needed in the environment that can be compromised. It is this type of failure in credential management that bad actors leverage to gain access to accounts, and data. Phishing Targeted Attacks.

Phishing 134

Phishing Technology IoT Manufacturing 134

Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

Mostly by deploying social engineering, victims are tricked into linking their cryptocurrency wallet to a fraudulent liquidity mining application. Hacked social media accounts. Using several methods, scammers take over social media accounts to target existing friends of the hacked user. Employment. Get a free trial below.

Cryptocurrency 77

Cryptocurrency Scams Media Social Engineering 77

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.

Financial Services 71

Financial Services Banking Identity Theft Technology 71

Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

Experts spotted a Java ATM malware that was relying on the XFS (EXtension for Financial Service) API to “ jackpot ” the infected machine. In that case, the malware was relying on the XFS (EXtension for Financial Service) API to “ jackpot ” the infected machine. Introduction. Evaluation of HTTP request.

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Malware Banking Advertising Financial Services 111