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Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

Krebs on Security

” “Additionally, we have been sharing Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and our CISO has been speaking directly with our customers’ security teams to provide updates on the investigation and our eDiscovery process,” the statement continues. 8 post on BreachForums. Image: Ke-la.com. 3, that price had been reduced to $10,000.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 494 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

CISA adds Fortinet products and Ivanti CSA bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Nation-state actor exploited three Ivanti CSA zero-days Dutch police dismantled dual dark web market ‘Bohemia/Cannabia’ macOS HM Surf flaw in TCC allows bypass Safari privacy settings Iran-linked actors target critical infrastructure organizations (..)

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The Cybersecurity Challenge in Mergers and Acquisitions

Digital Shadows

One private equity CISO reported a 400% increase in phishing attempts on acquired companies post-M&A deal announcements. Another post advertised the sale of client and employee credentials and email information from a Japanese construction company involved in M&A activity. Totaling an impressive $2.5

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AI-Driven Fraud and Impersonation: The New Face of Financial Crime

SecureWorld News

Similarly, the CEO of advertising giant WPP was targeted via a deepfake voice message on WhatsApp. For CISOs and security teams at banks, the mission in 2025 is clear: shore up defenses against not just malware or hackers, but also deception itself.

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Empowering Women in Cybersecurity: Insights from ISC2's Latest Study

SecureWorld News

I have a CISO peer who calls himself a 'compulsive interviewer' where he finds himself talking to wait staff, bartenders, retail workers, hospitality workers, those who show unique problem solving skillsworking under pressure or applying pattern matching to anticipate a problem and fixing it before it appears.

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Security Roundup February 2025

BH Consulting

TechCrunch reported : The dominance of behavioural advertising business models that rely on tracking and profiling web users to monetise their attention has raised the commercial stakes for any reform of EU ePrivacy rules. Links we liked Help Net Security rounds up insights into CISO thinking and strategy.

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The Goals of Cyber Public Health

Adam Shostack

As a CISO, you MUST do both: be an advisor with a vote and realize that you have to pick which hill to die on and be able to say no, and heres why and heres what we might be able to do instead. And I think prospective spending suffers from something like the advertising effect. (I Theres a question of will it be worth the effort?