SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

These include access control systems, surveillance cameras, and perimeter security, which help deter, detect, delay and respond to potential breaches, providing a comprehensive layer of protection against both physical and cyber threats. For example, a Gulf-based bank struggled with high false positive alerts.

Cybersecurity

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Here’s how data awareness can help HTTP Client Tools Exploitation for Account Takeover Attacks Dangerous hacker responsible for more than 40 cyberattacks on strategic organizations arrested Whos Behind the Seized Forums Cracked & Nulled?

Spyware

SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2025

We're not proposing surveillance; we're implementing guardrails that protect everyone while maintaining privacy." I worked with a bank CISO who was struggling to get approval for a cloud security program. Brainstorming guidelines Work with small, diverse groups of 3-5 people. Include creative thinkers as well as subject matter experts.

Ransomware

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

On May 2, 2024, Judische claimed on the fraud-focused Telegram channel Star Chat that they had hacked Santander Bank , one of the first known Snowflake victims. banks, ISPs, and mobile phone providers. banks, ISPs, and mobile phone providers. A segment of a lawsuit Binns filed in 2020 against the CIA, in which he alleges U.S.

Cybercrime

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). What happens when an attacker is inside a network?

Passwords

BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Electronic Frontier Federation has a good explainer of the surveillance mechanism behind the world of online ads. MORE The Dutch Central Bank warned people to keep cash at home due to cyber risk. Vividly illustrating this, the French security researcher Baptiste Robert posted a map showing the locations of UK Tinder users.

Cyber Risk

Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

Having worked with many Fortune 500 companies, he has vast experience enhancing the data protection and privacy programs of healthcare, banking, and financial companies. The firm specializes in implementing data classification, discovery, privacy, and data subject rights and protection software for organizations worldwide.

Cybersecurity

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Our business solutions remove all remnants of ransomware and prevent you from getting reinfected.

Small Business

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). What happens when an attacker is inside a network?

Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 28, 2025

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) 702 and Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in detail FISA 702 FISA Section 702 now authorizes U.S. Recent regulatory shifts raise questions The complex web of global and local regulations just got more complex as the U.S. Why, you ask?

Authentication

Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2025

CISA adds Ivanti EPMM, MDaemon Email Server, Srimax Output Messenger, Zimbra Collaboration, and ZKTeco BioTime flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog A critical flaw in OpenPGP.js

Data breaches

Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

For example, Manafort provided the bank with doctored [profit and loss statements] for [Davis Manafort Inc.] The FBI is 100% wrong that they're going dark ; it's really the golden age of surveillance , and the FBI's panic is really just its own lack of technical sophistication. Here's the relevant passage from the indictment.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

JULY 15, 2019

With a name, police can also find a person's email address, phone numbers, current and previous addresses, bank accounts, social security number(s), business relationships, family relationships, and license information like height, weight, and eye color, as long as it's in the agency's database. Boing Boing [link].

Surveillance

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

Banking

Bleeping Computer

MARCH 9, 2021

Hackers gained access to live surveillance cameras installed at Tesla, Equinox, healthcare clinics, jails, and banks, including the Bank of Utah. [.].

Surveillance

WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The West Bank was Israel’s surveillance laboratory. Since the Israel-Hamas war began, Palestinian residents have been locked in for days at a time.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2021

A group of hackers claimed to have compromised more than 150,000 surveillance cameras at banks, jails, schools, and prominent companies like Tesla and Equinox. A group of US hackers claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations.

Surveillance

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 22, 2021

Chine Foreign Ministry has issued a public statement condemning the distribution and usage of Pegasus Spyware surveillance software by various countries. Now, to those uninitiated, Israel-based NSO Group developed Pegasus surveillance software that was meant for government organizations to spy on criminal suspects.

Surveillance

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Banking industry giant NCR Corp. [ NYSE: NCR ] late last month took the unusual step of temporarily blocking third-party financial data aggregators Mint and QuicBooks Online from accessing Digital Insight , an online banking platform used by hundreds of financial institutions. Part of a communication NCR sent Oct.

Banking

Heimadal Security

APRIL 14, 2022

This RAT can be used for a variety of reasons, including surveillance and penetration testing, and has even been employed in hacking campaigns in […]. The post RemcosRAT Malware Is Targeting African Banks appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

Banking

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

References The Norwegian government is now on HIBP (that's now the 6th gov, the 7th will be announced in the coming days) Banks are communicating in precisely the fashion they're warning their customers about (is it a phish, or banks comms? Mass surveillance is a reality.

VPN

Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2021

From surveillance camera footage examined by fraud investigators, the perpetrators have followed the same playbook in each incident. ” Chain gang members at work on a Texas bank ATM. In 2019, the average amount stolen in a traditional bank robbery was just $1,797, according to the FBI. Image: Texas Bankers Association.

Banking

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. Attackers exploited the flaw in the SS7 protocol to defeat the 2FA authentication used by Metro Bank to protect its customers. ” said the Bank spokesman. .”

Banking

Schneier on Security

MARCH 18, 2022

Sure, banks want credit cards to be impervious to fraud, but if the security measures also regularly prevent us from using our own credit cards, we would rebel and banks would lose money. So banks often put ease of use ahead of security. But when we’re talking about milder attacks, the balance is less obvious.

Banking

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The one I encountered was at a Virginia county sheriff’s office, and it has two parking spots reserved with a sign that reads, “Internet Purchase & Exchange Location: This Area is Under 24 Hour Video Surveillance” [image above]. And it appears most states now have them in at least some major cities.

Internet

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

New data leak threatens the world of finance after the Panama Papers , hackers published 2TB of the Cayman National bank’s confidential data. The Cayman National has a branch on the Isle of Man that focuses in offshore banking. ” reported the website Unicorn Riot. Terabytes, it calls the leak Sherwood. .”

Banking

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. Justice Department unsealed indictments against three North Korean hackers accused of plundering and pillaging Sony Pictures , launching the WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017 , and stealing more than $200 million from banks and other victims worldwide.

Surveillance

The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The modifications seen in the TgToxic payloads reflect the actors' ongoing surveillance of open source intelligence and demonstrate their commitment to enhancing the

Banking

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

government added surveillance technology vendors Cytrox and Intellexa to an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. Government warns of the key role that surveillance technology plays in surveillance activities that can lead to repression and other human rights abuses. national security or foreign policy interests.

Surveillance

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

if you'd like to change your password (frankly, I'd be more inclined to change my bank!) Mass surveillance is a reality. But hey, at least FinecoBank got some press out of it! A VPN can't solve this issue, but it's a great first step.

VPN

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems.

Hacking

Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) researchers linked a threat group known as Knotweed to an Austrian surveillance firm named DSIRF, known for using multiple Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits. The targeted entities are law firms, banks, and strategic consultancies.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. Attackers exploited the flaw in the SS7 protocol to defeat the 2FA authentication used by Metro Bank to protect its customers. ” said the Bank spokesman. .”

Banking

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM , gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal , they may face hassles or delays in recovering any lost funds, but they are almost always made whole by their financial institution. banking system. For starters, nobody says they have to.

Retail

SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

Decoy image found within one of the malicious executables showing a protest against the central bank of Iran. When run, the executables display decoy content to the victims, with some presenting images of protests against the Iranian regime and its institutions, or videos from resistance camps. Analysis of MarkiRAT.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2022

Below the organizations breached in the last three days, since my previous update: Tendertech is a firm specializing in processing financial and banking documents on behalf of businesses and entrepreneurs. The list of the partner banks of the firms includes Transcapitalbank, Bank Uralsib, Bank Soyuz, RGS Bank, Bank ZENIT and Otkritie Bank.

Hacking

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

We assess the exploits were packaged by a single commercial surveillance company, Cytrox, and sold to different govt-backed actors. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox. link] — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) May 19, 2022. ” continues the report.

Spyware