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2025 Top Cyber Threats to Financial Services and How To Mitigate Them

Mitnick Security

In 2025, financial services firms arent asking if an attack will happen but how to stop it or minimize the fallout when it does. Phishing, ransomware, and insider threats are exposing gaps in outdated defenses and putting customer data at risk.

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Report Finds 50% of Scattered Spider Phishing Domains Targeted Finance & Insurance

Digital Shadows

In this blog, well preview the reports highlights and give insights into social engineering campaigns leveraging impersonating domains and our predictions for the threats shaping 2025. Organizations should implement domain monitoring, enforce DMARC policies, and train employees to recognize social engineering methods.

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Are Cybersecurity Jobs in High Demand?

Hacker's King

You may also want to read about: Cybersecurity vs Software Engineering in 2024 The Global Rise of Cyber Threats In the past decade, cyber threats have grown in frequency, complexity, and impact. This creates a high demand for cybersecurity jobs , particularly for roles such as security analysts, network engineers, and ethical hackers.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

” Mr. Shefel says he stopped selling stolen payment cards after being pushed out of the business, and invested his earnings in a now-defunct Russian search engine called tf[.]org. He also apparently ran a business called click2dad[.]net net that paid people to click on ads for Russian government employment opportunities.

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Luxury, Loyalty and Lateral Movement: Retail and Banking Attacks Surge

SecureWorld News

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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How Security Teams Collect the Data They Need for Threat Intelligence

SecureWorld News

With these insights, security personnel know which attack vectors to watch more closely, how to orchestrate the defenses, and what new phishing and social engineering trends to warn employees about. It helps prioritize risks, organize protection efforts, and allocate resources more flexibly to address the most pressing threats first.

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Shields up US retailers. Scattered Spider threat actors can target them

Security Affairs

The financially motivated group UNC3944 (also known as Scattered Spider , 0ktapus ) is known for social engineering and extortion. Theyve targeted high-profile brands, possibly to boost notoriety, and often shift focus by sector, such as financial services and food industries.

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