SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2025

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. These generally shed light on nation-state actors , APTs, and attempts at cyber espionage or cyber warfare.

Media

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2025

According to the 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report, titled The Rapid Rise of Bots and The Unseen Risk for Business , automated traffic overtook human activity for the first time in ten years, making up more than half (51%) of all internet traffic last year. This trend has been driven, for the most part, by the rapid adoption of AI and LLMs.

Digital transformation

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The modern internet's interconnected nature also threatens data security. According to Imperva’s State of API Security in 2024 report, APIs—the rules allowing software applications to communicate with each other—now account for a staggering 71% of internet traffic. The result?

DDOS

SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

This targeting strategy reflected a focused campaign aimed at compromising users of financial services through credential theft. This update added 14 new targeted applications, increasing the scope of its attacks and broadening the range of financial services it can exploit.

Banking

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.

Passwords

NetSpi Executives

JUNE 25, 2025

This extensive hands-on experience, spanning financial services, healthcare, government, and other sectors, provides us with unique insight into the current cybersecurity landscape facing enterprise mainframe environments. In some cases, we’ve even discovered mainframe systems allowing direct access from the internet.

Penetration Testing

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 24, 2025

Specifically, these CIS Benchmarks were updated: CIS Apple macOS 12.0 Monterey Benchmark v4.0.0 CIS Apple macOS 14.0 Sonoma Cloud-tailored Benchmark v1.1.0 CIS Microsoft Intune for Office Benchmark v1.1.0 CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2019 STIG Benchmark v3.0.0 CIS Microsoft Windows Server 2022 STIG Benchmark v2.0.0

Banking

Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Financial services industry: Banks, insurance companies and other financial organizations offer a wealth of opportunity for hackers who can use stolen bank account and credit card information for their own financial gain. In 2024, there were 14 data breaches involving 1 million or more healthcare records.

Data breaches

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2025

Seamlessly combining software with white glove service, 360 Privacy delivers a turnkey digital executive protection platform that automatically scrapes the internet and dark web in real-time to identify, remove and continuously monitor for PII. Today, 360 Privacy serves one-third of Fortune 100 companies as customers.

B2C

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.

Passwords

NetSpi Executives

MARCH 11, 2025

We have had uncommon instances of discovering administrative pages accessible to the general internet and ports and services unintentionally left open. Most of these findings have been in the environment for months with the client unaware until we perform an assessment for them. .

Risk

Zero Day

JULY 17, 2025

  And yet, counterintuitively, AI is also being deployed by financial services companies to prevent fraud. Even more (90%) agreed that unless their use of AI for fraud prevention increases in the coming years, their "financial losses will likely increase."

Artificial Intelligence

Zero Day

JULY 13, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence

SC Magazine

JUNE 9, 2021

million, financial services firms are laser-focused on cloud vulnerabilities, attacks against internet-of-things devices and other prevalent threats. . The heavily regulated environment in which financial services firms operate adds a layer of complexity —?and With data breaches causing an average loss of $4.2

Financial Services

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2018

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). It’s true that most financial services and big-name shopping websites have long ago moved to HTTPS. Related: How PKI can secure IoT.

Internet

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. The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

Insurance

Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Every organization should be paying attention to the attacks targeting financial services systems.

Financial Services

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.

Financial Services

Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

CISO

The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said it's introducing an exclusive "bank.in" internet domain for banks in the country to combat digital financial fraud.

Banking

Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

Cached versions of weblistingsinc.org at archive.org show logos similar to the one featured on the Web Listings mailer, and early versions of the site reference a number of “business partners” in India that also perform SEO services. A cached copy of Mark Scott’s blog Internet Madness from 2011 promotes Web Listings Inc.

Scams

The State of Security

MAY 31, 2021

The roads and railways that we travel on; the Internet and the mobile networks that connect us; the water that we drink; the healthcare, financial services and security […]… Read More. The post U.S.

Cyber threats

The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2023

Approov recently did a deep dive study of 650 financial services mobile apps of financial institutions across Europe and the US. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

Mobile

The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

Financial Services

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. When the site was first set up on Dec.

Ransomware

CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Without a doubt, one of the most game-changing innovations is the Internet of Things (IoT). That said, many industries — perhaps none more so than financial services — recognize that cybersecurity has become more critical, due to factors such as COVID-19, which caused a shift to remote work and the need to secure distributed devices.

Energy and Utilities

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In November 2021, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how Pompompurin abused a vulnerability in an FBI online portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities, and how that access was used to blast out thousands of hoax email messages — all sent from an FBI email and Internet address.

Hacking

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.

Malware

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

But as financial institutions have had to adapt to an increasingly digital world, it is imperative they have security solutions in place that not only provide security for users and data, but also ensure compliance with policies and regulations. Addressing financial services’ key pain points. Enabling the future of banking.

Digital transformation

The Hacker News

MAY 5, 2022

An ElasticSearch server instance that was left open on the Internet without a password contained sensitive financial information about loans from Indian and African financial services. Those records included personal information like name,

Financial Services

CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Locked down at home, consumers were abruptly forced to do all their banking over the internet. Web traffic volumes for an Akamai financial services customer before and after the March 2020 lockdown (the green bars represent daily customer traffic and the blue line represents web performance) To read this article in full, please click here

Banking

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. An employee published the alert on an online analyzing platform. ” reads the advisory.

Backups

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Some 11,800 computer software companies, 10,000 IT services vendors, 5,500 health care organizations and 3,200 financial services firms continue to maintain on-premises Exchange email servers, according to this report from Enlyft.

Financial Services

Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

This was ineffective because residential street addresses can be readily found on the internet and through other public sources. Moreover, this information can be guessed through a trial-and-error process. Most alarmingly, this security control was purely illusory.

Banking

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

Zoosk doesn’t want to block their customers from trying to find a mate; neither does a financial services firm or a retailer want to unnecessarily block a transaction and create customer dissatisfaction. “So Only then will leading-edge technologies make their fullest impact. I’ll keep watch.

Mobile

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. The tech giant removed over 100 Chrome browser extensions from the official Web Store.

Surveillance

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.

IoT