eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability.

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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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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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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2025

In a matter of days, three major cybersecurity incidents have hit the retail and financial services sectors, drawing renewed attention to supply chain vulnerabilities, credential-based attacks, and the increasing value of non-financial customer data. That's why MFA adoption remains low in many cases."

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The financial services industry, like every other, has a responsibility to look after the environment. Making the financial services industry greener goes beyond cards. Green One-time password (OTP) devices are a great example of a piece of equipment that the financial services industry can make greener.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. billion web app attacks last year, with more than 736 million targeting financial services. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector. A: Everything.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Once the number has been transferred, the criminal has control of any accounts that are identified by caller ID (including many financial institutions) as well as any accounts protected by two-factor authentication. It is believed this was the method used to recently hack Jack Dempsey’s Twitter account. . What You Can Do.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

This targeting strategy reflected a focused campaign aimed at compromising users of financial services through credential theft. It copied both the name and icon of the legitimate app, making it appear authentic to unsuspecting users. The code was fully obfuscated, making manual analysis and detection more difficult.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

financial services firm Ameriprise uses the domain ameriprise.com; the Disneyland Team’s domain for Ameriprise customers is [link] [brackets added to defang the domain], which displays in the browser URL bar as ? For example, one domain the gang has used since March 2022 is ushank[.]com com — which was created to phish U.S.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

If you prefer a more laid back approach, sign up for free transaction alerts from financial services institutions and credit card companies, or subscribe to a credit and identity monitoring program, 3. Minimize your exposure. Monitor your accounts. Manage the damage.

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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. The big takeaway, to me, is how they accomplished this – by refining and advancing credential stuffing.

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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. Create long and strong passwords. Lock your devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 16, 2021

With the average person now spending 2 hours and 51 minutes on their phone each day, service providers like ecommerce sites and entertainment channels have had to adapt their interfaces so that they also work on a smartphone. The financial services industry is no exception. Delegate authentication to the mobile app….

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 21, 2024

We also offer you AD-Recon for all the target network with passwords We’re not kidding, we have been on the network for a long time.” ” Toyota and Toyota Financial Services have suffered several breaches in the past, so it’s hard to tell where and when the information was obtained more precisely. Change your password.

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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. Use strong, unique passwords: Strong, unique passwords are a simple, yet powerful security tool.

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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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Breaking Free from Passwords: Passkeys and the Future of Digital Services josh.pearson@t… Mon, 09/02/2024 - 15:14 As passkeys offer a more secure and convenient way to authenticate users, it is no surprise that industry experts agree that they will become the standard authentication method used worldwide.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Individuals risk identity theft, financial loss, and privacy violations. Businesses, particularly those in financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors, suffer from operational disruptions and financial penalties. Employees play an integral role in the security of their organization.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

Threat actors carried out brute-force and password spraying attacks in an attempt to gain access to Microsoft customer accounts. The hackers also targeted non-governmental organizations and think tanks, as well as financial services. In all, 36 countries were targeted.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2024

In 2020, Truist provided financial services to about 12 million consumer households. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2023

Enforce a culture of strong passwords, two-factor authentication and responsible data access practices to foster a security-conscious culture. He has over 25 years of global leadership experience within the financial services industry, having spearheaded development across Electronic Trading, OMS, Risk, Compliance and Data.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2024

Financial services had the most breaches, followed by healthcare. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Watch out for fake vendors.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One piece of evidence to support this hypothesis is the low adoption of a basic security control that protects against identity-based attacks - multi-factor authentication (MFA). Add to this, the risks of weak authentication factors such as SMS one-time passcodes and dormant or inactive accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hacking collectives are very proficient at “exploiting weak authentication schemes to gain persistence inside of a targeted network,” Sherman says. The infamous Mirai botnet self-replicated by seeking out hundreds of thousands of home routers with weak or non-existent passwords.

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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. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2023

The stealer exhibits the following capabilities: Collect the passwords, cookies, and credit card data from Firefox, Google Chrome, and Brave browsers Extract files (.txt,doc,docx,pdf,xls,xlsx,ppt,pptx,jpg,png,csv,bmp,mp3,zip,rar,py,db)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. Plain Text (base64) Passwords.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. Most of the stolen files (50%+) were text files, some of them containing software logs, passwords, personal notes, and other sensitive information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. Security is paramount; digital payments are not only authorized but they must be authenticated as well. How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? Tue, 01/11/2022 - 06:35.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

. “As of January 2022, the FBI has identified at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including entities in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors,” reads the FBI’s flash alert.

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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 (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

In other words, bad actors glean lists of breached usernames and passwords and run them against desired logins until they find some that work. And, there remains general bad hygiene surrounding the creation of usernames and passwords, with many being reused over multiple websites. Good password hygiene and password managers. “If

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

According to the researchers, SharkBot demonstrates: “…how mobile malwares are quickly finding new ways to perform fraud, trying to bypass behavioural detection countermeasures put in place by multiple banks and financial services during the last years.” ” Type and source of the infection.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The IAM vendors took single sign-on to the next level, adding multi-factor authentication and other functionalities. Our customers all have the pain point of wanting to have single sign-on for multiple applications, requiring capabilities like self-service and self-registration,” Curcio told Last Watchdog.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The new variant is being spread via spam emails that pose as tax-incentive notification purporting to be from the financial services company Deloitte. Using the settings the module could retrieve an array of useful information, including host name, user name, and the private key files used for authentication.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Threat actors exploited a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40539 , in the Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus software, which is self-service password management and single sign-on solution. KdcSponge allows capturing the domain name, username, and password.

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