Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Security experts from Cybereason Nocturnus team discovered a new piece of Android malware dubbed EventBot that targets banks, financial services across Europe. Researchers from Cybereason Nocturnus team discovered a new piece of Android malware dubbed EventBot that targets banks, financial services across Europe.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online. vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” G7 experts pointed out that these attacks often involve payments in crypto-assets, jeopardizing essential functions along with our collective security and prosperity. “The G7 is committed to working with our financial sectors to combat ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Xchanging employs over 7,000 people worldwide and offers IT outsourcing, infrastructure including network managed services, software products and application management. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed the security breach on July 5, but it is not clear when it has discovered the attack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Researchers at Menlo Labs uncovered a malicious email campaign targeting employees of banks and financial services companies abusing Google Cloud Storage. With this attack scheme, threat actors are able to bypass security controls in place within targeted organizations. ” Menlo Labs concludes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OpenText Information Management

JULY 25, 2019

According to Accenture, the cost of cybercrime to US Financial Services companies rose 40% between 2014 and 2017, on average costing companies over $18 million per year. Add to this much tighter data protection regulations – such as those in the US and Europe – and the need for endpoint security becomes clear.

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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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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. ” reads the analysis published by Awake Security. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

Abnormal Security experts observed two separate phishing attacks impersonating notifications from Microsoft Teams that targeted as many as 50,000 Teams users to steal Office365 logins. Please vote Security Affairs for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link]. ” continues the report. Recently the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

A report published by security firm Digital Shadows r evealed the availability of more than 15 billion credentials shared on cybercrime marketplaces, paste sites, file sharing services, and code sharing websites. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

. “Unlike other cryptocurrencies , which are not controlled by a central authority, Libra will not be decentralised , but will be entrusted to a Swiss-based association of major technology and financial services companies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

SAP today just released the September 2018 set of Security Notes that address a total of 14 flaws in its products, including a critical flaw in SAP Business Client. The September 2018 Security Patch Day includes other 13 Security Notes, three were rated High severity, 9 Medium risk, and 1 Low severity. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Robinhood confirmed to have addressed the issue and the good news for the impacted users is that the financial service hasn’t found evidence that the passwords were accessed by anyone outside its response team. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Last week, Drupal core team released security updates that address a “highly critical” remote code execution vulnerability. reads the security advisory published by Drupal. The flaw was discovered by Samuel Mortenson of the Drupal Security Team. ” reads the technical analysis published by Ambionics security.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2019

BITPoint discovered the security breach overnight and immediately halted its services. “Today, we have stopped the remittance (sending) and receiving (depositing) services from 6:30, but we will stop all services including transactions and sending and receiving from around 10:30. . ” concludes the AFP press.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

These laws aim to establish standards for securing data, ensuring privacy, and mitigating risks associated with digital information. By enforcing these regulations, governments seek to enhance the overall security posture of businesses and institutions, reduce the likelihood of cyber incidents, and promote trust in the digital ecosystem.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2019

Automated teller machine vendor Diebold Nixdorf has released security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability in older ATMs. Diebold Nixdorf discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in older ATMs and is urging its customers in installing security updates it has released to address the flaw. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The bug affected the OCA’s Diameter Signalling Router component and its Communications Services Gatekeeper. The flaw also affected the Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure, the Fusion Middleware MapViewer, and four three Oracle Retail components. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

Synoptek has more than 1,100 customers across multiple industries, including local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. . ” T he IT service provider confirmed the attack but did not comment on whether it paid the ransom asked by the crooks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Also charged with treason was Ruslan Stoyanov , then a senior employee at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab [the Forbes.ru National Security Agency (NSA). In a major shakeup in 2017, the Kremlin levied treason charges against Sergey Mikhaylov , then deputy chief of Russia’s top anti-cybercrime unit. This is not the U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

. “Japanese cryptocurrency firm Tech Bureau Corp said about $60 million in digital currencies were stolen from its exchange, highlighting the industry’s vulnerability despite recent efforts by authorities to make it more secure.” Anyway, the incidents demonstrate that the level of security of exchanges has to be improved.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Other participants were teams from universities, Tencent, financial service provider Ant Financial, and independent researchers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Security Competition has started, in two days white hat hackers will attempt to exploit flaws in major software. Security Competition has started, white hat hackers will attempt to devise working zero-day exploits for popular software. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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. ” Impacted customers have been notified about the data leak, MasterCard will offer them one-year free credit monitoring and identity theft prevention service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Akamai report titled “[state of the internet] / security CREDENTIAL STUFFING ATTACKS “ the credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat and often underestimated. In another attack, a large financial services institution received over 350,000 login attempts in just one afternoon.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is behind new campaigns against South Korean supply chains that leverage stolen security certificates. . Security experts from ESET reported that North-Korea-linked Lazarus APT (aka HIDDEN COBRA ) is behind cyber campaigns targeting South Korean supply chains.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. “On December 13, 2018, we observed another large ServHelper “downloader” campaign targeting retail and financial services customers.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2018

As an additional security precaution, we have locked all Air Canada mobile App accounts to protect our customers’ data.” Credit cards that are saved to your profile are encrypted and stored in compliance with security standards set by the payment card industry or PCI standards. ” reads the data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The new variant is being spread via spam emails that pose as tax-incentive notification purporting to be from the financial services company Deloitte. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

. “Consider contacting CIFAS (the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service) to apply for protective registration. Once you’ve registered, you should be aware that CIFAS members will do extra checks to see when anyone, including you, applies for a financial service, such as a loan, using your address.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. The campaign appears related to attacks exploiting CVE-2019-0604 reported by the Saudi Arabian National Cyber Security Center and the Canadian Center for Cyber Security. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

In the Order, the SEC alleges that First American’s disclosures concerning the vulnerability were deficient because senior executives were not provided all available and relevant information, specifically that First American’s information security personnel had identified and failed to remediate the vulnerability months earlier in January 2019.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

“At Metro Bank we take our customers’ security extremely seriously and have a comprehensive range of safeguards in place to help protect them against fraud. ” said National Cyber Security Centre spokesman. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

As part of the public discussion, the Commission, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were present to provide their thoughts. Firms interested in cryptoassets should watch for EU regulatory guidance later this year.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

Experts spotted a Java ATM malware that was relying on the XFS (EXtension for Financial Service) API to “ jackpot ” the infected machine. In that case, the malware was relying on the XFS (EXtension for Financial Service) API to “ jackpot ” the infected machine. Security Affairs – Java ATM malware, hacking).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

More than 130 Central Banks have been exploring CBDCs since 2014. Government & Central Banks Central banks are exploring the use of central bank digital currencies as a way to take advantage of the benefits of cryptocurrencies for economic growth, while also minimizing the potential risks to financial stability: 1.

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