Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

It’s the May Bank Holiday, and as I sit at my desk, working, unanswered questions continue to swirl around the recent cyberattacks on Marks & Spencer (M&S) , the Co-op , and Harrods , leaving the full scope and implications of these breaches uncertain.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The most common threat to mobile devices was adware: 40.8% of all threats detected. We detected more than 1.3 million malicious installation packages, 154,000 of these containing a mobile banking Trojan. Also in 2023, we detected malicious WhatsApp and Telegram modifications that were stealing user data.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord. At around the same time, phishers started targeting online payment systems and internet banks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. Thanks to behavioral analysis, such systems make it possible to detect previously unknown malware samples.”.

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Responsible Cyber

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Bank of America-Infosys McCamish Incident A more severe breach occurred through Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), impacting over 6 million customers. Bank of America confirmed that 57,028 of its customers were directly affected by the incident.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The APT group RedCurl, discovered by Group-IB Threat Intelligence experts, has been active since at least 2018. Since then, it has conducted 26 targeted attacks on commercial organizations alone, including companies in the fields of construction , finance , consulting , retail , banking , insurance , law ,and travel.

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Google Security

MAY 15, 2024

Google Play Protect live threat detection Google Play Protect now scans 200 billion Android apps daily, helping keep more than 3 billion users safe from malware. The detection of suspicious behavior is done on device in a privacy preserving way through Private Compute Core, which allows us to protect users without collecting data.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. This relentless innovation makes threat actors more refined, targeted, and efficient, enabling them to have a bigger impact despite efforts to curb their activities.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Bell has more than 20 years’ experience in information technology and security strategy, most recently serving as chief security and trust officer for Verdigris Holdings, a mobile banking platform. He has actively worked with global organizations, banks, governments, security companies and law enforcement.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

In addition, monitoring all application, database, file shares, and authentication sources provide key telemetry for threat detection. FACT: Phishing and social engineering are the number one attack vector for SMBs. Fiction: SMBs can’t afford a cybersecurity program.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Despite all the advances in cybersecurity, email remains the starting point for the vast majority of cyberattacks, as phishing, malware and social engineering remain effective attack techniques. As some of these solutions are pretty low-cost, they potentially offer high ROI considering the enormity of the email threat problem.

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Spinone

JANUARY 12, 2019

Typically, the target of the CEO-fraud may be someone who works in the Finance department or another department that has direct access to budgetary funds and the ability to perform banking transactions on behalf of the organization. Is this type of social engineering and attack carried out randomly without prior planning, etc?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

Phishing kit templates are also available on the dark web, covering card companies, payment services, and online banking. These phishing kits incorporate various measures to avoid detection, such as blocking bot access and preparing a blacklist to prevent access from security companies and researchers.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

It lets bots mimic human behavior better, underlies highly effective social engineering campaigns, and plays a role in creating predatory code that flies under the radar. One more example of impactful abuse boils down to gaming Know Your Customer (KYC) workflows leveraged by banks to verify their clients.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Ransomware is becoming increasingly sophisticated and the criminals who use it are hitting larger targets in the cloud such as hospitals, banks, and government organizations, in search of higher monetary rewards. Up until recently, ransomware was only an issue to be concerned about the victim’s local computer or mobile device.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Machine learning allows security teams to speed up the process of threat detection and thereby respond to incidents more quickly and also to put preventative measures in place. We’ve already been benefiting from machine learning for many years.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This gang of cybercriminals targets individuals within an organization with social engineering tactics designed to fool them into opening a document from a ZIP file attached to an email. How do hackers use social engineering? Employee education is a critical element of phishing prevention and threat detection.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter released a statement indicating that this attack was the result of employees with internal access falling victim to social engineering that allowed the bad actors to take advantage of their insider privilege. In fact, larger corporations experience more insider threats than small and mid-sized businesses.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Best network security practices are essential, including using anti-malware, firewalls, intrusion prevention and detection (IPDS), network and log monitoring, data protection, security information and event management (SIEM), and threat intelligence. Phishing and Social Engineering. Banking trojan. Backdoor trojan.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Indrik Spider AKA Evil Corp : Indrik Spider, a Russia-based APT, is famous for being the group behind the Dridex banking trojan and the BitPaymer ransomware , which managed to hit the U.K.’s With a complex banking trojan like Dridex and ransomware like BitPaymer, IndrikSpider has potential against most high-value industries.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

AI's ability to evolve and adapt will redefine the cybersecurity landscape, making threat detection smarter and more proactive.' Attacks that we see today impacting single agent systems, such as data poisoning, prompt injection, or social engineering to influence agent behavior, could all be vulnerabilities within a multi-agent system.

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