Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security. According to Imperva’s State of API Security in 2024 report, APIs—the rules allowing software applications to communicate with each other—now account for a staggering 71% of internet traffic. The result?

DDOS

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.

Data breaches

SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

This targeting strategy reflected a focused campaign aimed at compromising users of financial services through credential theft. SMS hijacking Another new feature introduced in this campaign is SMS hijacking, a critical technique for compromising bank accounts and services that rely on SMS for two-factor authentication.

Banking

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

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next. Also:   How to delete yourself from internet search results and hide your identity online For individuals, the damage can be more personal than figures on a balance sheet. Close Home Tech Security Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak?

Passwords

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.

Artificial Intelligence

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.

Insurance

Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Hackers took advantage of the mishap to gain unauthorized access to email accounts and lots of customer’s data was exposed. Investment Research Advisors and Investment Research from Cambridge Investment were affected, as well as KMS, a registered financial services provider based in Seattle. .

Accountability

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. Department of Defense. USDoD’s InfraGard sales thread on Breached.

Hacking

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.

Malware

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. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

CISO

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.

Banking

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

A Twitter account for Web Listings Inc. Cached versions of weblistingsinc.org at archive.org show logos similar to the one featured on the Web Listings mailer, and early versions of the site reference a number of “business partners” in India that also perform SEO services. Image: Better Business Bureau. Helpmego.to

Scams

Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

IoT and Machine Identity Management in Financial Services. How is IoT changing the financial sector? IoT has already positively impacted the financial sector and will only continue to in the future. IoT has also transformed the financial services sector in a variety of ways: Real-time data. brooke.crothers.

Financial Services

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

The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

Financial Services

The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

Credential stuffing is a type of advanced brute force hacking that leverages software automation to insert stolen usernames and passwords into web page forms, at scale, until the attacker gains access to a targeted account. Some deep, structural flaws persist in the way we use our web browsers and mobile apps to access online accounts.

Accountability

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

We have on average 67 applications on our mobile phones, seven social media accounts and more than 120 online accounts. But these accounts are not all about networking and games. Financial services, health, home security, governance and all other mission critical services are now provided online.

Artificial Intelligence

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.

Scams

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some 11,800 computer software companies, 10,000 IT services vendors, 5,500 health care organizations and 3,200 financial services firms continue to maintain on-premises Exchange email servers, according to this report from Enlyft. Best practices a must. At the moment, ransomware attacks are front and center.

Financial Services

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2020

This was possible because APIs – the conduits that enable two software applications to exchange information – are open and decentralized, exactly like the Internet. APIs come into play again, when each new business and consumer app is put into service. OFX is the financial service industry’s standard for transferring funds,” he says.

Digital transformation

Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

“There are just horrifying stories that run the gamut in terms of victims, from young women early in their careers, to senior citizens and even to people working in the financial services industry.” Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com But after investing more than $4.5

Scams

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Today, however, I came across something a bit different by way of a story from last week titled 3,000 Databases with 200 Million Unique accounts found on Dark Web. But here's what was particularly interesting: the bcrypt accounts include the salt whilst the SHA1 accounts don't.

Data breaches

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an expanding menu of apps — using their smartphones and laptops.

Digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

IoT

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. Vulnerable online apps and services factored in as a primary target of automated botnet attacks. One of the most intensive uses of criminal botnets is account takeovers.

Digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

Cyber Risk

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

and its cyber threat intelligence and R&D unit, HUNTER, drained the Agent Tesla Command & Control Servers (C2) and extracted over 950GB of logs containing compromised Internet users credentials, files and other sensitive information stolen by malicious code. Los Angeles-based Resecurity, Inc.

Cyber threats

The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

Related: How credential stuffing fuels account takeovers. In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry.

Cloud Migration

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.” How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry. Prevent intrusions.

Social Engineering

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. million entries) Opera (2 million entries) Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge (1.3

Malware

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 (..)

Data breaches

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

Over the years processes, training and tooling to account for data privacy and data integrity have been woven in, driven by data breach lawsuits and the rise of data handling regulations. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Enter DevOps.

Software

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2019

The Capital One breach demonstrated, yet again, that well-defended enterprises have yet to figure out how to account for all the complexities of moving to the cloud and relying more on DevOps. It can help companies identify, analyze, and report on misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and anomalies in user behaviors and account usage patterns.

Digital transformation

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. A German User’s Account. An Australian User’s Account. Financial details such as. Account Takeover.

Passwords

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A separate set of startups soon cropped up specifically to handle the provisioning of log on accounts that gave access to multiple systems, and also the de-provisioning of those accounts when a user left the company. The accelerated use of third-party software development and cloud services only exacerbated this core dilemma.

Government

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. Instead, they look to maliciously modify website files; this is being done in order to steal the website visitors’ financial information.

Cloud Migration