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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

The experts from the DIVD privately reported two flaws to Kaseya in early July, the issues are respectively an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability and a privilege escalation flaw that could allow an attacker to change his role from read-only user to admin. An employee published the alert on an online analyzing platform. “A

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Bolster your monitoring and email authentication capabilities. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Most of the impacted vendors are in the healthcare sector (55%), followed by IoT (24%), IT (8%), financial services (5%), and manufacturing (4%). The impact of these flaws is widespread, experts determine that the issues impact more than 150 device models from over 100 manufacturers.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 9, 2023

The software has been heavily used in the healthcare industry as well as thousands of IT departments in financial services and government sectors. Once the malicious webshell is installed, it creates a random 36 characters long password which later is used for the authentication purpose.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Enable two-factor authentication.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. The 26 million login credentials held 1.1 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, data breaches and API usage all contribute to the perfect conditions for successful credential stuffing attacks. content delivery network Akamai concluded in its State of the Internet report.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like other ransomware groups, its threat actors use double extortion tactics, predominantly targeting organizations in the US in five critical infrastructure sectors: critical manufacturing, financial services, government facilities, healthcare and public health, and information technology.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This allows the threat actors to harvest login credentials for banking applications and other financial services. Use a reputed anti-virus/anti-malware and internet security software package on your connected devices, such as PCs, laptops, and mobile devices.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks. Jump to: What is multi-factor authentication? MFA can be hacked.

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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). Double-check any site navigated to from a QR code before providing login, personal, or financial information.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Its account and transaction processing systems power the Web sites for hundreds of financial institutions — mostly small community banks and credit unions. The authentication weakness allowed bank customers to view account data for other customers, including account number, balance, phone numbers and email addresses.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

The summer of 2019 was a heady time for the financial services industry. The Solarwinds hack highlighted supply chain risks; the Microsoft Exchange breach demonstrated how collaboration tools are being targeted; and, most recently, the Experian API hack , showed how authentication isn’t being guarded as rigorously as it needs to be.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Some organizations such as financial services firms and healthcare organizations, have regulatory concerns in addition to business concerns that need to be addressed in a cybersecurity risk management system. Also read : Thousands of Data Center Management Apps Exposed to Internet. Maintaining Regulatory Compliance.

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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. The personal identifiable information (PII) exposed by the leak could be used in fraudulent authentication across other platforms.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

Chargeback fraud is one of the fastest-growing types of fraud on the internet. These requirements have two major aims: to authenticate the customer’s identification and to ensure that they are not engaging in criminal acts. To hinder these, one must implement the right prevention and detection measures into their business model.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Between June and November 2019, a small group of cyber criminals targeted a financial services institution and three of its clients, resulting in the compromise of more than 4,000 online banking accounts, according to a credible financial source. Read: FBI Private Industry Notification.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 24, 2023

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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.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 3, 2023

What it means — CitrixBleed ransomware group woes grow as over 60 credit unions, hospitals, financial services and more breached in US. This one was, to me, clearly going to be a major issue as it allowed the bypass of multi-factor authentication controls, it didn’t log exploitation and it was easy to exploit.

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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 services company, Wells Fargo. Methodology.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

And in May of 2021 Researchers disclosed that the Peloton API authentication was broken. Wilde: Now, for me the storyline was interesting right so when it was reported I think in late January, it was completely open right like this is right no authentication at all because well we didn't tell anybody about it.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

Security solutions integrated into operating systems, two-factor authentication and other verification measures have helped reduce the number of vulnerable users. We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies, as well as the dynamics of various Windows and Android-based financial malware. In 2022, 36.3%

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2024

Now, customers can kickstart the application process from the comfort of their homes or any place with internet access. Online banking services have become so common that according to Forbes , more than 70% of adults in the U.S. Passkeys, replacing passwords, emerge as the superior authentication choice.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2024

If updates can’t be performed immediately, consider deploying additional security controls or at least disconnecting vulnerable devices from direct internet access. April 13, 2024 Delinea Secret Server Patched After Researcher’s Public Disclosure Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass. No workaround was provided for either issue.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

To lend an air of authenticity and to motivate the victim to enter valid information, the swindlers warned that the victim could be prosecuted for providing false information. In a typical internet hoax manner, crypto scam sites offered visitors to get rich quick by paying a small fee.

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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.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

An attacker can easily scan the internet for websites that haven’t patched a vulnerability for which the attacker has an exploit. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). Logins without multi-factor authentication. Enable multi-factor authentication. Inventory all management interfaces of internet-facing assets—e.g.,

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft said it notified the targeted 150 organizations, which included “IT companies (57%), followed by government (20%), and smaller percentages for non-governmental organizations and think tanks, as well as financial services.” Only three of the 150 entities actually got compromised. We’re moving in the right direction.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That story about the Flashback author was possible because a source had obtained a Web browser authentication cookie for a founding member of a Russian cybercrime forum called BlackSEO. DomainTools reports that in 2018, Mr. Shefel’s company Internet 2 LLC registered the domain name Lenin[.]me.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

This vulnerability allows an attacker to make an untrusted connection to Exchange server port 443, allowing them to send arbitrary HTTP requests and authenticate as the Exchange server. Web shells are used by hackers on internet-facing servers. Specifically, the tool targets the CVE-2021-26855 vulnerability.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

When you have a victim that came from a phishing attack on the financial services industry for example, and then later you obtain that victim’s gaming details, if there is a match on email addresses, username, address, etc. You get an email, click the link, and you’re able to access the application or service.

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