Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

IoT and Machine Identity Management in Financial Services. How is IoT changing the financial sector? IoT has already positively impacted the financial sector and will only continue to in the future. IoT has also transformed the financial services sector in a variety of ways: Real-time data. brooke.crothers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

Zoosk’s core service is delivered via a mobile app that has 20 different registration and/or login pages – all are API driven. Thus, it was well worth it for a hacking group to study Zoosk’s IT stack to reconnoiter its weak points. They can take the next step and execute a hack, which can include harvesting account credentials.

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Mobile Digital transformation Scams Accountability 266

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It may be the most complete picture we've ever had of North Korean hacking campaigns. The unsealed documents highlight a number of attack targets and motives in an effort to hack, digitally intrude, and defraud. The hacking indictment filed in the U.S. North Korean hacking methods and attack vectors. global targets.

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Hacking Cryptocurrency Computers and Electronics Banking 109

Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2025

Whether through offensive operations or scanning activity, Unit 29155 cyber actors are known to target critical infrastructure and key resource sectors, including the government services, financial services, transportation systems, energy, and healthcare sectors of NATO members, the EU, Central American, and Asian countries.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Security experts started analyzing the DGA mechanism used by threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack to control the Sunburst / Solarigate backdoor and published the list of targeted organizations. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Solarwinds). College of Law and Business, Israel NetBios HTTP Backdoor 2020-05-26 ad001.mtk.lo N/A N/A N/A.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2020

Related: Defending botnet-driven business logic hacks APIs made possible the astounding cloud, mobile and IoT services we have today. This was possible because APIs – the conduits that enable two software applications to exchange information – are open and decentralized, exactly like the Internet.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

Malicious Chrome browser extensions were used in a massive surveillance campaign aimed at users working in the financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, government organizations, and pharmaceuticals. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Chrome). ” reads the analysis published by Awake Security.

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Security Affairs

JULY 27, 2021

Experts found three new zero-day flaws in the Kaseya Unitrends service and warn users to avoid exposing the service to the Internet. Security researchers warn of three new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Kaseya Unitrends service. SecurityAffairs – hacking, zero-days). ” reads the advisory.

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Backups Financial Services Internet Internet 115

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

and its cyber threat intelligence and R&D unit, HUNTER, drained the Agent Tesla Command & Control Servers (C2) and extracted over 950GB of logs containing compromised Internet users credentials, files and other sensitive information stolen by malicious code. SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cyber threats Engineering Financial Services Malware 144

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? million and grown to 42 employees, winning customers in leading media firms, financial services companies and government agencies in the Nordics. I’ll keep watching and reporting. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Cyber Risk Risk Financial Services Banking 147

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) Will Enable Mass Spying Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K.

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Ransomware Data breaches Hacking Financial Services 126

The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. A slew of new cloud-security frameworks have gained traction since the Capital One hack. Related: How credential stuffing fuels account takeovers.

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Cloud Migration Banking Firewall Software 164

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

. “Whether through offensive operations or scanning activity, Unit 29155 cyber actors are known to target critical infrastructure and key resource sectors, including the government services, financial services, transportation systems, energy, and healthcare sectors of NATO members, the EU, Central American, and Asian countries.”

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Healthcare Government Financial Services IoT 139

SecureWorld News

JUNE 17, 2021

sectors that need to be on Russia's no-hack list. In that case, Leighton says Russia's Internet Research Agency did the dirty work. The Internet Research Agency was a form of cutout that was doing the Kremlin's work for it. Biden says he gave Putin a list of 16 U.S. This is exactly how Russia conducted its operations in 2016.".

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Hacking Ransomware Media Financial Services 98

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Legacy perimeter defenses are rapidly losing efficacy as the landscape shifts to cloud computing and the Internet of Things. Cryptographic splitting, it would seem, holds the potential to prevent these types of hacks going forward. Yet in the age of Big Data and digital transformation many organizations still don’t do this very well.

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Encryption Data breaches Digital transformation Banking 159

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Also:   How to delete yourself from internet search results and hide your identity online For individuals, the damage can be more personal than figures on a balance sheet. You must also inform your bank or financial services provider so they can be on the lookout for suspicious and fraudulent transactions.

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Passwords Data breaches Password Management Identity Theft 91

Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. SecurityAffairs – hacking, custom malware).

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Malware Computers and Electronics Software Financial Services 129

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

This, in turn, has given rise to fresh tiers of unprecedented vulnerabilities – flaws that motivated hacking groups have nothing better to do than to locate and exploit, just ask Equifax or Capital One. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Software Financial Services Risk Data privacy 194

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report on credential stuffing, credential stuffing continues to be growing threat. According to Akamai report titled “[state of the internet] / security CREDENTIAL STUFFING ATTACKS “ the credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat and often underestimated.

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Data breaches Passwords Advertising Financial Services 108

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. Limit the scope of your holiday spending. Keep purchases concentrated to a one-to-two week window, if possible.

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Scams Retail Banking Passwords 243

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

No critical findings were present among the Top 30 vulnerabilities for the Internet Software (or SaaS) industry, as defined by the public security scoring system CVSS. Product security and AppSec teams trust Detectify to expose exactly how attackers will exploit their Internet-facing applications. Go hack yourself: detectify.com.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

DIVD Chairman Victor Gevers told BleepingComputer that the advisory was originally shared with 68 government CERTs under a coordinated disclosure, but became public after one of them shared it with an organization’s service desk operating in the Financial Services. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Kaseya). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Backups Authentication Financial Services Firewall 111

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Experts warn of an ongoing hacking campaign that already compromised at least nine organizations worldwide from critical sectors by exploiting CVE-2021-40539. 17 the actor leveraged leased infrastructure in the United States to scan hundreds of vulnerable organizations across the internet. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2021-40539).

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Healthcare Financial Services Password Management Surveillance 121

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, Optus). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. The post 19-Year-Old man arrested for misusing leaked record from Optus Breach appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Data breaches Scams Telecommunications Financial Services 98

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

list I reference in that post, for example, was almost entirely data I'd seen before and it was being distributed via Reddit, "the front page of the internet" But these things are always worth a look anyway so I set about locating the data.

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Data breaches Passwords Accountability Financial Services 242

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2024

“We are reaching out to known LockBit victims and encouraging anyone who suspects they were a victim to visit our Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov.” Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware) on January 5, 2020.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware Encryption Financial Services 137

Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

The American multinational financial services corporation noti f ied the data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities. “On August 21, 2019, we became aware that a second file of personal information was published on the Internet. SecurityAffairs – MasterCard, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data breaches Identity Theft Advertising Financial Services 109

The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

Credential stuffing is a type of advanced brute force hacking that leverages software automation to insert stolen usernames and passwords into web page forms, at scale, until the attacker gains access to a targeted account. The big takeaway, to me, is how they accomplished this – by refining and advancing credential stuffing.

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Accountability Mobile Passwords Authentication 257

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Most of the impacted vendors are in the healthcare sector (55%), followed by IoT (24%), IT (8%), financial services (5%), and manufacturing (4%). SecurityAffairs – hacking, IoT). The impact of these flaws is widespread, experts determine that the issues impact more than 150 device models from over 100 manufacturers.

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Manufacturing IoT Authentication Financial Services 102

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2019

For every Capital One massive breach that hits the top of the news cycle, there are dozens of more intricate hacks that never make the headlines. And it is reasonable to assume many, many more malicious probes and deep hacks are going undetected. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.). Talk more soon.

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Digital transformation Risk Firewall Accountability 147

Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Chances are youve received at least one of these letters, which means you have been put at risk for identity theft and major financial losses. Data breaches occur when sensitive, protected, or confidential data is hacked or leaked from a company or organization. What are data breaches and how do they happen?

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Data breaches Identity Theft Passwords eCommerce 72

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2020

Here are key takeaways: Runtime exploits The hacking groups responsible for massive, headline-grabbing data thefts – think Marriott and Equifax — share a couple of things in common. It struck me that his is very likely what the elite hacking groups are standing by to do. I’ll keep watch.

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Software Penetration Testing Hacking Financial Services 133

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Also:   How to delete yourself from internet search results and hide your identity online For individuals, the damage can be more personal than figures on a balance sheet. You must also inform your bank or financial services provider so they can be on the lookout for suspicious and fraudulent transactions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

Resecurity® is an Affiliate Member of FS-ISAC and an Official Member of Infragard which aim to combat cybercriminal activity targeting financial services and Internet users globally. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link]. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Frappo).

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Phishing Banking Retail Financial Services 102