Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Defending Financial Services Against Fraud in a Shifting Cyber Landscape sparsh Tue, 11/14/2023 - 05:05 As we approach International Fraud Awareness Week during 12-18 November 2023, taking stock of the evolving threat landscape and the vulnerabilities that financial services organizations face is crucial.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. The credentials are sold for an average of $15.43, the most expensive pairs relate to banking and financial services accounts, with an average price of nearly $71.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Justice Department says those indicted were members of a DPRK-sponsored cybercrime group variously identified by the security community as the Lazarus Group and Advanced Persistent Threat 38 (APT 38). million in August 2020 from a financial services company based in New York. billion from banks and other victims worldwide.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued an alert to instant-quote websites, particularly car insurers, warning of a growing campaign to steal nonpublic information (NPI). The attackers captured the full, unredacted driver’s license numbers without going any further in the process and abandoned the quote.”.

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Financial Services Insurance Cybercrime Hacking 122

Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today.

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Insurance Financial Services Penetration Testing Scams 359

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2024

Toyota has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor leaked 240GB of data stolen from its infrastructure on a cybercrime forum. Toyota disclosed a data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from its systems on a cybercrime forum, BleepingComputer reported.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Pompompurin has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years.

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Hacking Cybercrime Energy and Utilities Accountability 363

Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

The request for the last four of the customer’s credit card number was consistent with my own testing, which relied upon on a caller ID spoofing service advertised in the cybercrime underground and aimed at a Citi account controlled by this author. A screen shot from an underground store selling CVV records. Click to enlarge.

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Scams Banking Accountability Financial Services 363

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Microsoft disrupted the ONNX phishing service, seizing 240 sites and naming an Egyptian man as the operator behind the operation. Microsoft announced the disruption of the ONNX phishing service, another success against cybercrime which led to the seizure of 240 sites. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Interbank , formally the Banco Internacional del Perú Service Holding S.A.A. is a leading Peruvian provider of financial services has over 2 million customers. Peruvian Interbank confirmed a data breach after threat actors accessed its systems and leaked stolen information online.

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Data breaches Financial Services Hacking Mobile 128

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016.

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Hacking Cybercrime Ransomware Government 256

Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2025

Google warns that the cybercrime group Scattered Spider behind UK retailer attacks is now targeting U.S. The financially motivated group UNC3944 (also known as Scattered Spider , 0ktapus ) is known for social engineering and extortion. companies, shifting their focus across the Atlantic.

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Retail Social Engineering Cybercrime Financial Services 66

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. And all of them operate via Telegram , a cloud-based instant messaging system.

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Passwords Authentication Banking Mobile 353

Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. In July 2020, the New York State Department of Financial Services announced the company was the target of their first ever cybersecurity enforcement action in connection with the incident, charges that could bring steep financial penalties.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Financial services continue to lead in cybersecurity preparedness, but chinks appear in the armor. That is why criminals have historically chosen to focus on this industry over the years, with organized crime evolving into organized cybercrime. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15. Malware and ransomware attacks increase.

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Financial Services Cybersecurity Computers and Electronics Banking 62

Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A new phishing campaign dubbed MirrorBlast is deploying weaponized Excel documents that are extremely difficult to detect to compromise financial service organizations [.].

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Cybercrime Financial Services Phishing 90

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2025

In 2023, victims reported nearly 900,000 cybercrime complaints to the FBI. 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.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Japan’s Financial Services Agency, who investigated the incident, found severe issues in DMM Bitcoin’s risk management, including inadequate oversight, lack of independent audits, and poor security practices. Elliptic also confirmed it has identified the wallets involved in the attack.

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Cryptocurrency Financial Services Accountability Hacking 63

Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2021

Cybercrime is on the rise across all levels of industry and government. Nowhere is that more apparent than in financial services, where firms like banks and credit unions experience attacks nearly 300x more often than other industries.

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Banking Cybersecurity Financial Services Healthcare 105

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Researchers at Menlo Labs uncovered a malicious email campaign targeting employees of banks and financial services companies abusing Google Cloud Storage. Experts analyzed some malicious VBS scripts that were highly obfuscated and were likely created by one of the builder available in the cybercrime underground.

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Financial Services Cybercrime Malware Advertising 111

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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This is an important achievement in the fight against cybercrime. Law enforcement from the US, Europe, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Latvia conducted a joint operation that led to the seizure of the Ragnar Locker ransomware’s infrastructure. Both FBI and Europol declined to comment on the events.

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Ransomware Financial Services Cybercrime Manufacturing 139

Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

And that information is for sale in multiple places online and in the cybercrime underground for a few bucks per person. Thus, an attacker would only need to know a target’s SSN to reset that customer’s password, according to Bessemer.

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Banking Accountability Passwords Technology 255

Veracode Security

JULY 29, 2022

The global financial services industry is undergoing a seismic shift and not enough people are truly aware of what this means. By November of this year, banks and other financial institutions must have in place a new process for payment systems that uses the ISO 20022 standard instead of SWIFT.

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Banking Financial Services Cybercrime Technology 108

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“The government and the people of Papua New Guinea can be assured that the government financial services will continue as usual,” Pundari said. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). The government was not able to pay cheques and ordinary operations were impacted. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Ransomware Government Financial Services Cybercrime 125

SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2025

The evolution of cybercrime is shifting into hyperdrive. Industry-specific organizations also exist for key economic sectors like financial services , healthcare, energy, and transportation to serve as hubs for exchanging threat intelligence data, incident reports, and best practices.

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Media Social Engineering Malware Phishing 82

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.

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Retail Banking Financial Services Social Engineering 68

Hacker's King

OCTOBER 19, 2024

In 2023 alone, global cybercrime damages were projected to reach $10.5 Escalating Cybercrime As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, the need for cybersecurity experts who can anticipate, prevent, and respond to attacks is essential. trillion annually.

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Cybersecurity Healthcare Cyber threats Government 59

SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2021

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center says it has observed new activity from the cybercrime group, mainly password spay and brute-force attacks. Plus, Microsoft says it has uncovered that one of its customer service systems was under an ongoing attack and being used to launch highly targeted attacks against some Microsoft customers.

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Cybercrime Financial Services Accountability Passwords 57

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Advantage and Argus seem to be the same company working under two different names, they offer funding and startup capital to business owners without access to traditional lending and financial services. SecurityAffairs – financial documents, cybercrime). The researchers discovered the unsecured database in December 2019.

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Banking Financial Services Advertising Cybercrime 142

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The recent cyber-attacks by an Iranian-backed cybercriminal group on a water utility in Aliquippa , Pennsylvania by targeting an Israeli-made SCADA system exemplify incidents teetering on the edge of cyberterrorism and cybercrime.

Cyber threats 138

Cyber threats Energy and Utilities Cyber Attacks Artificial Intelligence 138

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutch Cancer Center New NKAbuse malware abuses NKN decentralized P2P network protocol Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz Multiple flaws in pfSense firewall can lead to arbitrary code execution BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware Gangs Spotted (..)

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2021

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center says it has observed new activity from the cybercrime group, mainly password spray and brute-force attacks. Plus, Microsoft says it has uncovered that one of its customer service systems was under an ongoing attack and being used to launch highly targeted attacks against some Microsoft customers.

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Cybercrime Financial Services Accountability Passwords 52

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Online credit bureaus, like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, often see an uptick in new users after breaches because consumers realize the potential risks to their financial well-being and identity.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This collaborative policy statement, endorsed by 48 countries, the European Union, and Interpol, signifies a pivotal breakthrough in the battle against this financially devastating form of cybercrime. Stephen Gates , Principal Security SME at Horizon3.ai, Their livelihoods have been at stake.

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Ransomware Financial Services Healthcare Cyber threats 109

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Of course, we’re interested from a cybercrime point of view. Cybercrime. Cybercrime in this report includes the creation and spread of malware, hacking to steal sensitive personal or industry data, denial of service attacks to cause financial and/or reputational damage, and other criminal activities.

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