Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2025

The company disclosed a data breach that exposed subscribers’ personal information, it added that the incident did not impact core network, billing system,s and financial services infrastructure. Our core network, billing systems and financial services infrastructure remain secure and fully operational.”

Data breaches

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

Plus, the EUs DORA cyber rules for banks go into effect. DORA establishes strict cybersecurity requirements for financial firms including banks , insurance companies and investment firms, as well as for third-parties that provide information and communications technology (ICT) products and services to financial sector organizations.

Banking

Hacker's King

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Finance and Banking Financial institutions are prime targets for cyberattacks due to the sensitive nature of the data they hold. With millions of transactions occurring daily, banks and financial services firms are heavily investing in cybersecurity to protect customer information and prevent financial fraud.

Cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2025

While any business is a potential target for hackers, critical infrastructure organizations including defense, healthcare, energy, utilities, and financial services companies are perhaps most at risk due to their financial resources. Department of Defense, to global tech giants, to utilities, banks and other vital services.

Energy and Utilities

Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2025

.” In April 2025, the South African multinational telecommunications company MTN Group Limited disclosed a data breach that exposed subscribers personal information, it added that the incident did not impact the core network, billing systems and financial services infrastructure. The gang claimed the theft of 2 TB of data.

Cyber Attacks

Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2025

New Coyote malware uses Windows UI Automation to steal banking credentials, targeting Brazilian users across 75 banks and crypto platforms. In February, FortiGuard Labs researchers detected a campaign using LNK files executing PowerShell commands to deploy the Coyote Banking Trojan. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

Malware

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, as important as PCI may be, United States financial services organizations operate in one of the worlds most stringent and complex compliance landscapes. Understanding the US FinServ Compliance Landscape The US financial services industry is subject to a vast number of laws and regulations.

Financial Services

Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2025

Failure to comply can result in hefty financial penalties and damage public trust, making GDPR adherence crucial. Open Banking and PSD2: The growth of open banking has increased dependency on APIs for financial transactions.

Authentication

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. New York, the city that never sleeps, is also the city that takes cybersecurity very seriously.

Cybersecurity

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 28, 2024

DORA and Its Focus on Operational Resilience DORA establishes a comprehensive framework for digital operational resilience in the financial sector. It aims to ensure that financial institutions, ranging from banks to payment processors, can manage and mitigate risks associated with information and communication technology.

Encryption

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 rack up charges on your credit cards and even drain your bank accounts.

Data breaches

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Sale of personal information: Under the rules of Know Your Customer (KYC) legislation, every trader must be able to supply private and confidential information that often includes details like banking information and credit card information. It is vital to research any financial service or platform before investing.

Scams

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

  Also: 4 ways to secure your remote work setup If your payment card details, bank accounts, or other digital financial services have been compromised, call the provider immediately (or freeze your cards using the mobile app, if your app has that feature).

Passwords

BH Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2025

DORA mainly covers organisations in the financial services sector. In Ireland, its the Central Bank of Ireland. For other EU countries, it will be designed financial authorities, i.e. CBI equivalents. What organisations are in scope? What is the supervisory authority for reporting to? What are the reporting requirements?

Risk

Centraleyes

JULY 13, 2025

The Cyber Risk Institute (CRI) Profile is a cybersecurity and risk management framework designed specifically for the financial services sector. These include guidance from the Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC, FFIEC , CFTC, IOSCO, and international bodies like the European Central Bank and ENISA. and global regulators.

Financial Services

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2024

30, 2024, CyberNewswire — The American Transaction Processors Coalition (ATPC) Cyber Council will convene “The Tie that Binds: A 21st Century Cybersecurity Dialogue,” on October 31, 2024, at the Bank of America Financial Center Tower’s Convention Hall in Atlanta. Atlanta, GA, Oct.

Financial Services

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

  Also: 4 ways to secure your remote work setup If your payment card details, bank accounts, or other digital financial services have been compromised, call the provider immediately (or freeze your cards using the mobile app, if your app has that feature).

Passwords

Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2025

Their primary focus includes small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), government and public sector agencies, educational institutions, healthcare providers, financial services firms, and enterprise-level corporations.

Education

Hacker's King

JULY 21, 2025

Telecommunication Networks: Telcos can run billing, network gear, and customer service as separate, but linked, services. Banking & Financial Services: Banks can stack modules on OS23 to craft systems that are tough, easy to change, and quick to respond to new transactions and customer requests.

Architecture

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Identity and Access Management (IAM) The 2024 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) Financial Services Edition revealed that only 59% of financial services organizations cite achieving security consistency across workforce and non-workforce identities. The same can become a reality for private businesses.

Financial Services

Zero Day

JULY 17, 2025

  And yet, counterintuitively, AI is also being deployed by financial services companies to prevent fraud. In the financial sector, an issuer is a firm that provides debit or credit cards (think Chase or another major bank), while acquirers are those that accept payments (think Stripe and Square).

Artificial Intelligence

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. Bank , and Wells Fargo. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), ” Sen.

Banking

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is warning customers it has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data.

Financial Services

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 20, 2021

While instant card issuance has become a common service for many banks, digital issuance, where banks can issue card credentials directly to a customer’s mobile wallet, looms as the next development to revolutionise the way consumers interact with their financial services provider. . Increased level of security.

Financial Services

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

banking regulators have approved a new rule that orders banks to notify federal regulators of significant cybersecurity incidents within 36 hours. banking regulators this week approved a rule that obliges banks to report any major cybersecurity incidents to the government within 36 hours of discovery. Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking

Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Tenable's research reveals 26,500 cyber vulnerabilities in Southeast Asia's banking and insurance sectors, exposing critical security risks.

Banking

CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A report published Monday by cloud services and CDN (content delivery network) platform Akamai said that the financial services industry is an increasingly popular target for a wide range of cyberattacks, with application and API attacks against the vertical more than tripling in the past year.

Financial Services

The Hacker News

JUNE 28, 2022

A previously unknown Android banking trojan has been discovered in the wild, targeting users of the Spanish financial services company BBVA. The name Revive has been chosen since one of the

Financial Services

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2024

ICICI Bank, a major private bank in India, mistakenly exposed the sensitive data of thousands of new credit cards to unintended recipients. ICICI Bank, one of the leading private banks in India, accidentally exposed data of thousands of new credit cards to customers who were not the intended recipients.

Banking

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The ongoing debacle, which allegedly involves malfeasance on the part of the payroll company’s CEO, resulted in countless people having money drained from their bank accounts and has left nearly $35 million worth of payroll and tax payments in legal limbo. The total amount of this mass payroll deposit was approximately $26 million.

Banking

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2020

TSYS provides payment processing services, merchant services and other payment solutions, including prepaid debit cards and payroll cards. In 2019, TSYS was acquired by financial services firm Global Payments Inc. NYSE:GPN ].

Ransomware

Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. In that episode, the people impersonating his bank not only spoofed the bank’s real phone number, but they were also pretending to be him in a separate call at the same time with his bank.

Scams

Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2021

Historically, only large, well-established banks had control over the majority of consumer and corporate finances, making it highly challenging for smaller financial services providers to break into the market. The post Securing UX in Open Banking Apps appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Banking

Bleeping Computer

DECEMBER 24, 2021

An Android banking trojan targeting Itaú Unibanco, a large financial services provider in Brazil with 55 million customers globally, is using a fake Google Play store to spread to devices. [.].

Banking

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. Bank customers. Bank customers.

Malware

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Pacific City Bank was hit by AVOS Locker Ransomware operators, the gang claims to have stolen sensitive file from the company and threatens to leak it. Pacific City Bank is an American community bank that focuses on the Korean-American community based in California and offers commercial banking services.

Banking

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2024

Officials at the CFPB have described the new rules as an attempt to accelerate a shift toward “open banking,” and after an initial comment period on the new rules closed late last year, Rohit Chopra, the CFPB’s director, has said he would like to see the rule finalized by this fall.

Banking