Antivirus, Financial Services and Phishing

Japan ’s FSA warns of unauthorized trades via stolen credentials from fake security firms’ sites

Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2025

Japan s Financial Services Agency (FSA) warns of hundreds of millions in unauthorized trades linked to hacked brokerage accounts. Japan s Financial Services Agency (FSA) reported that the damage caused by unauthorized access to and transactions on internet trading services is increasing.

Financial Services

Financial Services Passwords Antivirus Accountability

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

SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2025

The result has been an alarming surge in fraud losses and a fundamental challenge to the trust-based interactions that financial services rely on. Voice-cloned phone scams: Rather than crude phishing emails, scammers use AI voice synthesis to call bankers or customers while mimicking a trusted person's voice.

Banking

Banking Scams Social Engineering Financial Services

The danger of data breaches — what you really need to know

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. In 2024, there were 14 data breaches involving 1 million or more healthcare records.

Data breaches

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NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation: Dates, Facts and Requirements

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. phishing attacks), and their specific roles in protecting sensitive information.

Cybersecurity

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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. Despite billions of dollars spent on the latest, greatest antivirus suites, firewalls and intrusion detection systems, enterprises continue to suffer breaches that can be traced back to the actions of a single, unsuspecting employee.

Social Engineering

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Spam and phishing in 2021

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Our Anti-Phishing system blocked 253 365 212 phishing links. Safe Messaging blocked 341 954 attempts to follow phishing links in messengers. Hurry up and lose your account: phishing in the corporate sector. Another noticeable phishing trend targeting the corporate sector was to exploit popular cloud services as bait.

Phishing

Phishing Scams Accountability Banking

50 Ways to Avoid Getting Scammed on Black Friday

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Leverage antivirus software. Protect yourself from malware by purchasing, updating, and upgrading antivirus software. There’s a chance the unsolicited offer in your inbox is a “ phishing ” scheme. Phishing schemes don’t only travel by way of email. (Think of Google Chrome blocking you from visiting a suspicious website.)

Scams

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Attackers Use Bots to Circumvent Some Two-Factor Authentication Systems

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“Over the past few months, we’ve seen actors provide access to services that call victims, appear as a legitimate call from a specific bank and deceive victims into typing an OTP or other verification code into a mobile phone in order to capture and deliver the codes to the operator,” the Intel 471 researchers wrote.

Authentication

Authentication Social Engineering Phishing Banking

Avoslocker ransomware gang targets US critical infrastructure

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. ransomware and phishing scams).

Ransomware

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Cyberattack Statistics. Ransomware.

Backups

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BlueNoroff introduces new methods bypassing MoTW

SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2022

At the time of analysis, this.vhd sample wasn’t detected by any antivirus. This downloader checks for the names of the following antivirus vendors: Sophos, Kaspersky, Avast, Avira, Bitdefender, TrendMicro, and Windows Defender. Japanese multinational banking and financial services. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.

Malware

Malware Banking Passwords Antivirus

Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. Healthcare and financial services are the most attacked industries. Bitdefender : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. Update Anti-Ransomware Software. Offline Backups. Ransomware facts. Description.

Ransomware

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Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Do antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools stop ransomware? Only about 20% of the ransomware tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) used by ransomware attackers are identified out-of-the-box by antivirus (AV), endpoint detection and response (EDR), and security information and event management (SIEM) tools.

Ransomware

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Spam and phishing in 2020

SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 Agentb malware family. Trends of the year.

Phishing

Phishing Malware Scams Accountability

The Hacker Mind: MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. Vamosi: Let's look at one scenario, The carpet X scenario begins with a legitimate user executing a malicious payload delivered via spear phishing ATT&CKs targeting financial service institutions.

Government

Government Marketing Malware Technology

The Hacker Mind: MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

They're the long game operations where something as small as a single phishing email could escalate into millions of IDs being exfiltrated. Vamosi: Let's look at one scenario, The carpet X scenario begins with a legitimate user executing a malicious payload delivered via spear phishing ATT&CKs targeting financial service institutions.

Government

Government Marketing Malware Technology

USAID Email Phishing Campaign Shows Supply Chain Threats Continue

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch phishing campaigns against a broad array of targets. Now the group is back with the USAID phishing campaign. “Attackers know this and are creating phishing campaigns to take advantage of the mobile interface that makes it hard to spot a malicious message.

Phishing

Phishing Mobile Government Identity Theft

Cyber Security Informer

Japan ’s FSA warns of unauthorized trades via stolen credentials from fake security firms’ sites

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

Trending Sources

The danger of data breaches — what you really need to know

NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation: Dates, Facts and Requirements

BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

Spam and phishing in 2021

50 Ways to Avoid Getting Scammed on Black Friday

Attackers Use Bots to Circumvent Some Two-Factor Authentication Systems

Avoslocker ransomware gang targets US critical infrastructure

What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

BlueNoroff introduces new methods bypassing MoTW

Ransomware Protection in 2021

Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

Spam and phishing in 2020

The Hacker Mind: MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

The Hacker Mind: MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

USAID Email Phishing Campaign Shows Supply Chain Threats Continue

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