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 (..)

Data breaches 81

Data breaches Cybercrime Firewall Artificial Intelligence 81

Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

Financial services company LoanDepot disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 LoanDepot is a financial services company that primarily operates as a mortgage lender. The company provides a range of mortgage and non-mortgage loan products and services. million individuals. million individuals.

Data breaches 106

Data breaches Financial Services Cybersecurity Encryption 106

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. “The Department is conscious of the security and integrity of its data. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

Ransomware 82

Ransomware Government Financial Services Cybercrime 82

Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The company has offices in more than 42 countries and more than 60,000 employees, it has clients in multiple industries. . ” reads the letter.

Data breaches 119

Data breaches Hacking Banking Financial Services 119

Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

Resecurity researchers warn that a new Version of JsOutProx is targeting financial institutions in APAC and MENA via Gitlab abuse. Resecurity has detected a new version of JSOutProx , which is targeting financial services and organizations in the APAC and MENA regions.

Banking 97

Banking Financial Services Malware Phishing 97

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The experts called it ‘prepositioning’ to analyze the response from financial organizations globally and the reaction of the market. LockBit specifically targeted ICBC Financial Services (ICBC FS), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the state-owned lender, which plays a critical role in the world of international finance.

Ransomware 106

Ransomware Banking Financial Services Marketing 106

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The database belonging to the company was leaked on a cybercrime forum. The authorities determined that data used in this criminal activity were from the 10,200 records stolen from the telecommunications giant last month.

Data breaches 72

Data breaches Scams Telecommunications Financial Services 72

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. Nissan is working with its global incident response team and relevant stakeholders to investigate the extent of the incident and whether any personal information has been accessed.”

Ransomware 125

Ransomware Data breaches Financial Services Scams 125

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Resecurity’s HUNTER (HUMINT) unit spotted the BianLian , White Rabbit , and Mario ransomware gangs collaborating in a joint extortion campaign targeting publicly-traded financial services firms.

Ransomware 103

Ransomware Financial Services Cyber Attacks Cybersecurity 103

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

Energy and Utilities 106

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Financial Services Manufacturing 106

SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Prior to Mastercard, Abdullah was the chief information security officer at Xerox, where she established and led a corporate-wide information risk management program. She also served as the deputy chief information officer of the White House. She is also the host of the Mastering Cyber podcast.

Computers and Electronics 126

Computers and Electronics Technology Education Information Security 126

Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) revealed that a data breach its has suffered impacted 14 million customers. The data breach suffered by Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is much more serious than initially estimated.

Data breaches 89

Data breaches Financial Services Passwords Hacking 89

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The cybercriminals defined the security implemented by the bank terrible. “Pacific City Bank provides outstanding banking and financial services for businesses and consumers. but they have horrible security)” reads the message published on the leak site.

Banking 119

Banking Ransomware Financial Services Hacking 119

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

“In securing the arrest of a second Russian national affiliated with the LockBit ransomware, the Department has once again demonstrated the long arm of the law. We will continue to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt cybercrime, and while cybercriminals may continue to run, they ultimately cannot hide.”

Ransomware 87

Ransomware Healthcare Education Government 87

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. Consider installing and using a VPN.

Ransomware 99

Ransomware DDOS Passwords Backups 99

SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

Critical Start today released its biannual Cyber Intelligence Report, featuring the top threats observed in the first half of 2023 and emerging cybersecurity trends impacting the healthcare, financial services, and state and local government industries.

Cyber threats 71

Cyber threats Malware Phishing Penetration Testing 71

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

Hacking 90

Hacking VPN Advertising Financial Services 90

Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Microsoft researchers warn of banking adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing and BEC attacks targeting banking and financial organizations. Microsoft discovered multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks against banking and financial services organizations.

Phishing 91

Phishing Banking Financial Services Authentication 91

Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

The recent campaign exclusively aims at organizations that deal with tax preparation, financial services, CPA and accounting firms, and professional service firms dealing in bookkeeping and tax. Crooks use lures masquerading as tax documentation sent by a client. LNK) files.

Accountability 91

Accountability Phishing Financial Services Surveillance 91

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

entities Financial Services, Government Facilities, Healthcare and Public Health, Critical Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Third-party and open-source reports have identified a possible link between Cuba ransomware actors, RomCom Remote Access Trojan (RAT) actors, and Industrial Spy ransomware actors.”

Ransomware 85

Ransomware Financial Services Manufacturing Healthcare 85

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

. “With the discover of SharkBot we have shown new evidence about 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.” ” concludes the report.

Banking 126

Banking Mobile Social Engineering Malware 126

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The majority of the identified fraudulent projects were related to financial services (FIs), oil & gas, renewable energy, EV batteries, electric vehicles, healthcare, semiconductors, and world-recognized investment corporations and funds with a global presence.

Scams 93

Scams Mobile Marketing Banking 93

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

XFS (extensions for financial services) provides a client-server architecture for financial applications on the Microsoft Windows platform, especially peripheral devices such as EFTPOS terminals and ATMs which are unique to the financial industry. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

Banking 95

Banking Malware Financial Services Architecture 95

Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

In a classified report cited by Chosun, the US National Intelligence Service (DNI) found that North Korea was financing its ‘priority policies’, such as nuclear and missile development, through cybercrime. correspondent or payable-through account sanctions.” ” We are in the final!

Government 83

Government Cryptocurrency Media Technology 83

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.

Ransomware 86

Ransomware Financial Services Passwords VPN 86

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The experts were able to enumerate the C2s and targets of multiple distinct Chaos clusters, some of which were employed in recent DDoS attacks against the gaming, financial services and technology, and media and entertainment industries. .” reads the analysis published by Lumen Technologies. ” continues the report.

Malware 87

Malware DDOS Architecture Financial Services 87

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. The security breach was confirmed by the company with a message via Twitter: C.R.E.A.M. It promises earnings to users who are passively holding ETH or wBTC.

Cryptocurrency 104

Cryptocurrency Hacking Financial Services Marketing 104

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

Energy and Utilities 90

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Financial Services 90

Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

” The victims of the Lockfile ransomware gang are in the manufacturing, financial services, engineering, legal, business services, and travel and tourism sectors. It is not clear how the attackers gain initial access to the Microsoft Exchange Servers.”

Ransomware 135

Ransomware Financial Services Hacking Encryption 135

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The sanctioned entities are Cetera (Advisor Networks, Investment Services, Financial Specialists, Advisors, and Investment Advisers), Cambridge Investment Research (Investment Research and Investment Research Advisors), and KMS Financial Services.

Accountability 83

Accountability Hacking Financial Services Cybersecurity 83

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

Energy and Utilities 100

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Financial Services 100

Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2023

Other top 4 targeted industries include Manufacturing, Insurance, Technology, and Financial Services seeing 15%, 9%, 7%, and 6% of the campaign traffic respectively.” com (Cloudflare’s Web3 services). ” Most of the links included in the phishing messages were comprised of Bing redirect URLs.

Phishing 88

Phishing Energy and Utilities Insurance Manufacturing 88

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 2, 2021

Herjavec Group’s award-winning Managed Security Services Practice defends global, enterprise-level organizations from increasingly sophisticated, targeted cybercrime threats. He has over 30 years of experience in information security and has established himself as a leading voice in business and cybersecurity.

InfoSec 52

InfoSec Cybersecurity Computers and Electronics Marketing 52

Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2019

“The hacks have prompted greater oversight of crypto exchanges by Japan’s Financial Services Agency but critics says security gaps remain.” The list of hacked exchanges includes Bithumb Binance , Coinrail , Zaif , Coincheck , and Bitfinex. ” concludes the AFP press.

Cryptocurrency 88

Cryptocurrency Cyber Attacks Financial Services Advertising 88

Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

Synoptek has more than 1,100 customers across multiple industries, including local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. . ” T he IT service provider confirmed the attack but did not comment on whether it paid the ransom asked by the crooks.

Ransomware 67

Ransomware Financial Services Retail Advertising 67

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This action will result in protection for a wide range of organizations, including financial services institutions, government, healthcare, and other verticals from malware and human-operated campaigns delivered via the Trickbot infrastructure.” ” concludes Microsoft.

Banking 97

Banking Malware Advertising Financial Services 97

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The cybercrime group claims to have stolen 1 TB of data from the hospital and threatens to leak it. The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang added Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital to the list of victims on its Tor leak site The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang claimed responsibility for an attack on Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital.

Ransomware 115

Ransomware Financial Services Cybercrime Encryption 115