Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm disclosed a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm revealed that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. billion web app attacks last year, with more than 736 million targeting financial services. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector. A: Everything.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A 16% increase in data breaches, as well as attacks that targeted end users as opposed to corporations. . Looking at particular attack methods, Obrela found that those most utilised were typically malware infection, reconnaissance, data exfiltration and phishing attacks, along with the exploitation of malicious insiders. .

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The penalized companies are Investment Services, Advisor Networks, Financial Specialists, Investment Advisers, and Advisors, all under the Cetera group. Investment Research Advisors and Investment Research from Cambridge Investment were affected, as well as KMS, a registered financial services provider based in Seattle. .

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Identity IQ

JULY 19, 2021

The company also provides services to real estate, legal, insurance, financial services, petrochemical and oil and gas industries. If you are planning on closing on a home today, that may be difficult as a result of the latest ransomware attack. Its victim: Cloudstar, one of the title industry’s primary cloud providers.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance. In the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

During the recent investigation, the Cybernews research team discovered that the bank leaked the sensitive data due to the misconfiguration of their systems. Employees, businesses, and individuals whose data were exposed could be at risk of spear phishing campaigns,” added researchers. million files belonging to ICICI Bank.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Recently, New York State’s Department of Financial Services issued a memorandum providing guidance to the insurance industry to help stabilize and safeguard the cyber insurance market. However, that landscape has faded fast – threatening the very availability of cyber insurance for ransomware.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

tag=IT Security'>IT Security</a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade. Furthermore, data visibility was cited as the number one cybersecurity weakness, closely followed by an inability to meet regulatory challenges.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Targeted Phishing and Social Engineering: In some cases, attackers may employ targeted phishing emails or social engineering techniques to gain initial access to a system within the target network. By using specific search queries, an attacker can identify systems that are potentially susceptible to EternalBlue.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

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SC Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

Threats increased between Q3 and Q4 at more than half (54%) of the organizations surveyed, with financial services (61%) and high-tech/business services (57%) reporting the highest rate of increase. Phishing remained the most frequent threat. respondent in financial services.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Emergency Services. Financial Services. In Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigation’s Report (DBIR) , 4,000 data breaches out of 32,000 incidents impacted critical infrastructure. Florida Water Attack Details - Tactics Included Phishing, Credential Stealing, DLL Injection. Communications.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

Data enrichment is a thing that happens in the criminal economy. When you have a victim that came from a phishing attack on the financial services industry for example, and then later you obtain that victim’s gaming details, if there is a match on email addresses, username, address, etc.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). In its new report, the New York State Department of Financial Services says the cyberattack and resulting bitcoin scam netted the teen hackers at least $118,000.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Never use duplicate usernames or passwords across any of your online accounts to limit your exposure in case of a data breach. There’s a chance the unsolicited offer in your inbox is a “ phishing ” scheme. Phishing schemes don’t only travel by way of email. Vary login credentials across accounts. Be wary of email offers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For example, data sprawl has significantly increased due to all of the new patient data that has been created during the pandemic. This new model of hyper-distributed data creates a much broader attack surface than existed before. More importantly, half of that cloud data is sensitive. ransomware). of total budget.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Onfido, a London-based company, offers photo-based IDV services for businesses. Financial service providers, car rentals, and many other suppliers that need to confirm customer identities employ similar third-party services. Having your personal data leaked poses many hazards. Verification process. Looming dangers.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 24, 2021

tag='></a> Protecting customer data from loss and leakage has become a top priority for enterprises over the past decade. Recent HelpSystems research with CISOs in global financial service organizations found that almost one-third believe data breaches have the potential to cause the most damage over the next 12 months.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 21, 2022

Top findings revealing the current threat landscape included: 87 percent of enterprise security decision makers were the victims of successful cyberattacks perpetrated against them that resulted in damage, disruption, or a breach to their business in the past 3 years. director level or higher and have influence over data security strategy).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Forex trading may be dominated by banks and global financial services but, thanks to the Internet, the average person can today dabble directly in forex, securities and commodities trading. In the rush toward online trading though, users have entrusted terabytes of confidential data to online forex trading platforms.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

There are lots of good reasons to start using alternatives to passwords for accessing critical services. The respected Verizon Data Breach Incident Report repeatedly flagged easily guessed passwords as a key driver of security breaches. The intended victim was a financial services company, it said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Thankfully, cybersecurity professionals everywhere are working on inventing new tech and improving upon legacy technology solutions to maintain pace with these criminals who threaten our data security. Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) will continue to grow and become more sophisticated over the next year. Tyler Farrar, CISO, Exabeam.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. In most cases, this regards the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and in the UK that law continues as the UK GDPR. So today, we'll go for the low hanging fruit.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Their new trick is to extract precious company data before encrypting it, so the attacks pack a one-two punch—they threaten embarrassing data breaches on top of crippling data destruction. (If They are using the old, time-tested phishing, unpatched systems, etc., not rocket science stuff that you often hear about.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Larger organizations most targeted by advanced persistent threats (APTs) like enterprises and government agencies, financial services, energy, and telecommunications make up Kaspersky EDR’s clientele. Read more about the solution in our comparative analysis of Kaspersky and Symantec. Runner up: Trend Micro Vision One.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2019

Financial data is perhaps one of the most sensitive types of data. Often, the target of attackers can be financial information or other information that can compromise identity. This can lead to financial services being compromised.

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