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.

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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

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

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

PSD2 Regulation and Compliance josh.pearson@t… Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:44 The PSD2 directive is a cornerstone of payment legislation in Europe, designed to enhance consumer protection, foster innovation, and create a more integrated and secure European payment landscape. Initially, PSD2 was set to take full effect on September 14, 2019.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Publication of Secure Payment Confirmation as a Candidate Recommendation indicates that the feature set is stable and has received wide review.

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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. The post 15 billion credentials available in the cybercrime marketplaces appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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

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

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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

According to Farsight Security , a company that keeps historic records of which Web sites were hosted at which Internet addresses, Weblistingsinc.org was for a while hosted at the IP address 68.169.45.65 Information about who registered Webtechnologiesletter.com is completely hidden behind privacy protection services. Helpmego.to

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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

MARCH 19, 2020

Security experts from Bitdefender recently discovered a new TrickBot variant that is targeting telecommunications organizations in the United States and Hong Kong. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The module implements three attack modes, named check, trybrute and brute.

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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. At the time it is not clear the number of users that have been impacted by the issue. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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

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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Pitney Bowes company announced that a ransomware attack infected its systems and cause a partial system outage that made some of its service unavailable for some customers. Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping, mailing, data and financial services.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign delivering the Qbot malware to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Security researchers at F5 Labs have spotted ongoing attacks using Qbot malware payloads to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. 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. . The post California IT service provider Synoptek pays ransom after Sodinokibi attack appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 -->. Security Affairs – Tianfu Cup PWN hacking contest, zero-day). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Secret Service determined that he ran a massive “money mule” scheme, which used phony job offers to trick people into laundering money stolen from hacked small to mid-sized businesses in the United States. BOTNET, THE MOVIE In 2015, Kovalev reportedly began filming a movie in Russia about cybercrime called “ Botnet.”

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 23, 2017

On March 21, 2017, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that the New York Office of the Attorney General received over 1,300 data breach notifications in 2016, a 60 percent increase from 2015. The reported breaches led to the exposure of personal information of 1.6 million New York residents.

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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

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 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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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 -->. The new strain of the Trickbot banking trojan that a updated info-stealing module.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The global shipping and mailing services company Pitney Bowes recently suffered a partial outage of its service caused by a ransomware attack. Pitney Bowes is a global technology company that provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce , shipping, mailing, data and financial services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread. But it requires different levels of security.

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