Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Why should I care about Phish? The reason why phishing is still reigning supreme?

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Phishing Accountability Social Engineering Mobile 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

Authentication 113

Authentication Social Engineering Phishing Banking 113

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.

Insurance 86

Insurance Data breaches Financial Services Passwords 86

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Make sure your smartphone, tablet and laptop are password-protected, particularly if you’re in the habit of carrying them around wherever you go. Create long and strong passwords. Never use duplicate usernames or passwords across any of your online accounts to limit your exposure in case of a data breach. Lock your devices.

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Scams Retail Banking Passwords 243

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

These services include calling their target victims, appearing to be from their bank, and socially engineering them into handing over a one-time password (OTP)—or other verification code—to the bot operators. ” Intel 147 has been observing these activities since June when services like these started operating. What to do.

Social Engineering 94

Social Engineering Banking Authentication Passwords 94

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. ransomware and phishing scams).

Ransomware 98

Ransomware DDOS Passwords Backups 98

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In this research, we analyze various types of threats, such as financial malware and phishing pages mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms, banking and payment systems, and discuss recent trends. Over the first ten months of 2022, Kaspersky prevented 38,596,555 financial phishing attacks. Methodology.

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Phishing Banking Scams Retail 110

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. What happens when a customer is “phished” to perform a bank transfer or provide their bank account details to complete a transaction? How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments?

Retail 126

Retail Financial Services Banking Authentication 126

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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Accountability Hacking Financial Services Data breaches 100

IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. .

Banking 101

Banking Phishing Financial Services Government 101

SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. The term is also used to describe malware seeking access to financial organizations’ IT infrastructures. Financial Phishing.

Banking 107

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 107

Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 4, 2023

You may be familiar with phishing - emails that look legitimate, but are malicious attempts to get your personal information. The word “smishing” has become a legitimate term that combines the words “Short Message Service (SMS)” and “ Phishing ”. But email isn't the only way hackers try to get your information.

Scams 98

Scams Banking Phishing Financial Services 98

Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. Plain Text (base64) Passwords.

Passwords 123

Passwords Accountability Media Identity Theft 123

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. Methodology For this report, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of financial cyber threats in 2022. of all phishing attacks in 2022.

Banking 79

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 79

SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

The most frequent targets of leakware are hospitals, law firms, and financial services organizations. Email phishing attacks are a common method hackers use to execute leakware. Filtering and analyzing can prevent phishing emails from ever making their way into an employee or executive's inbox.

Ransomware 80

Ransomware Digital transformation Phishing Small Business 80

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

who in April 2022 opened an investigation into fraud tied to Zelle , the “peer-to-peer” digital payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bank , and Wells Fargo.

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Banking Accountability Scams Passwords 267

SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The archive file we recently discovered contained a password-protected decoy document and a shortcut file named “ Password.txt.lnk “ This is a classic BlueNoroff strategy to persuade the victim to execute the malicious shortcut file to acquire the decoy document’s password. Create a decoy password file and open it.

Malware 136

Malware Banking Passwords Antivirus 136

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Ransomware. Other methods.

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Backups Ransomware Firewall Malware 145

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like other ransomware groups, its threat actors use double extortion tactics, predominantly targeting organizations in the US in five critical infrastructure sectors: critical manufacturing, financial services, government facilities, healthcare and public health, and information technology.

Ransomware 90

Ransomware Financial Services Accountability Malware 90

SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. In this research, by financial malware we mean several types of malevolent software. Financial phishing.

Banking 123

Banking Phishing Malware Mobile 123

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 69

Cyber threats Malware Phishing Penetration Testing 69

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This allows the threat actors to harvest login credentials for banking applications and other financial services. The Trojan is capable of initiating money transfers by making USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) calls without using the dialer user interface. It sends the harvested data to the attacker.

Banking 95

Banking Malware Mobile Financial Services 95

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

Data breaches 52

Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

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).

Passwords 79

Passwords Data breaches Advertising Password Management 79

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. Therefore, the user must type the password indicated in the original HTML attachment to open it.

Firewall 123

Firewall Ransomware Banking Malware 123

Centraleyes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Established by the main major credit card financial companies back in 2004 (American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, Mastercard and Visa), the standard has evolved over the years and is currently at version 4.0. Important Note: PCI DSS current version, Version 3.2.1, in March of 2024.

Passwords 52

Passwords Computers and Electronics Software Risk 52

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Stolen usernames and passwords are loaded up on botnets, which then relentlessly test them on account logon pages. These baseline account takeovers can then be leveraged to spread spam, distribute phishing scams, launch denial of service attacks, infiltrate and plunder networks, execute wire fraud and more.

Digital transformation 140

Digital transformation Mobile B2C B2B 140

Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“ Cisco Duo simplifies the passwordless journey for organizations that want to implement phishing-resistant authentication and adopt a zero trust security strategy. “Over the last few years, we have increased our password complexities and required 2FA wherever possible. . “ – Jack Poller, Senior Analyst, ESG.

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Authentication Passwords Phishing Mobile 106

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. Threat actors can abuse PII to conduct phishing and social engineering attacks.

Identity Theft 87

Identity Theft Accountability Data breaches Social Engineering 87

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via Zelle , a “peer-to-peer” (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family.

Scams 354

Scams Banking Passwords Authentication 354

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

And yet, for all of its sophistication, Nobelium also engages in routine phishing campaigns to get a foothold in targeted organizations. They revert back to the tried-and-true technique of compromising victims’ passwords to gain access to their accounts. This of course is how they get a toehold to go deeper. Cyber hygiene works.

Hacking 214

Hacking Phishing Passwords Accountability 214

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. The modules also used the Scanline network scanner to find file shares (port 135, Server Message Block, SMB) used to spread malware with administrative passwords, compromised with keyloggers. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S.

Advertising 68

Advertising Financial Services Malware Government 68

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Your company stakeholders — especially the employees — should know the strategies your security team is using to prevent data breaches, and they should know simple ways they can help, like password protection and not clicking on malicious links or files or falling for phishing attacks. This varies between organizations.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Big data Penetration Testing Cyber Attacks 98

The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts. In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. Related: Why diversity in training is a good thing.

Social Engineering 166

Social Engineering Engineering Phishing Banking 166

SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2020

I had much more authority when I was working in financial services," Sherry said. We had a recent roll out of a password manager, for example. One of the biggest issues is phishing, like it is with most people, and it's not going to stop, so we thought strategy wise, that was the first place to start.".

Cybersecurity 53

Cybersecurity CISO Risk Education 53

Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Security professionals agree that passwords are low hanging fruit for cybercriminals and can even be the keys to the kingdom when the compromised passwords belong to privileged accounts. According to a 2023 Cisco Duo sponsored survey , only 62% of organizations make MFA mandatory for their entire workforce.

Threat Detection 134

Threat Detection Authentication Accountability Data breaches 134

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016. Social engineering attacks , including phishing, spam, and viruses introduced via clickable links within e-mail affected 80% of the banking institutions in 2016.

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Security Awareness Risk Cyber threats Cyber Risk 40