Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

“The adversary is particularly interested in exploits related to VPNs and network appliances , including CVE-2019-11510, CVE-2019-19781, and most recently CVE-2020-5902; reliance on exploits such as these lends to an opportunistic operational model.” ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, the FBI published two flash alert to warn of the operation of the group. This is an important achievement in the fight against cybercrime. Both FBI and Europol declined to comment on the events. More details are expected to be released tomorrow.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Advantage and Argus seem to be the same company working under two different names, they offer funding and startup capital to business owners without access to traditional lending and financial services. The researchers discovered the unsecured database in December 2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

Oracle released the first critical patch advisory for 2019 that addresses a total of 284 vulnerabilities, 33 of them are rated “critical”. The bug affected the OCA’s Diameter Signalling Router component and its Communications Services Gatekeeper. ” reads the d escription provided by.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 10, 2019

The New Year is upon us, and with it come new challenges and opportunities for the Financial Services industry.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2024

Resecurity researchers warn that a new Version of JsOutProx is targeting financial institutions in APAC and MENA via Gitlab abuse. Resecurity has detected a new version of JSOutProx , which is targeting financial services and organizations in the APAC and MENA regions.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2019

New York regulators are investigating a weakness that exposed 885 million mortgage records at First American Financial Corp. On May 29, The New York Times reported that the inquiry by New York’s Department of Financial Services is likely to be followed by other investigations from regulators and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 1, 2019

To compete and succeed in today’s fast-changing business climate, banks, insurance companies and other financial services institutions (FSIs) need to have three priorities to contend with new technologies, new market entrants and new ways of working that are changing expectations for the industry. appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

For example, in February 2019 Trend Micro detected a variant that includes a new module used for Remote App Credential-Grabbing. ” The module appears to be under development, but experts pointed out that threat actors already used it to target organizations, mostly in telecoms, education, and financial services sectors.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. In April 2019, the group targeted organizations of two different countries in the Middle East. The longest activity involving one of the three webshells was observed on April 16, 2019.

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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. “On August 21, 2019, we became aware that a second file of personal information was published on the Internet. We are working to remove them as well.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

Iran-linked threat actor Tortoiseshell targeted shipping, logistics, and financial services companies in Israel with watering hole attacks. The activity of the APT group was first detailed by Symantec in 2019, the experts analyzed a series of attacks against IT providers in Saudi Arabia and US entities.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

. “To date, this type of analysis has been used primarily by regulated financial service providers.” ET: Corrected the story to note that AMLBot has been around since 2019. ” That may not be entirely true. AMLBot’s user interface. “My guess is they’re just white-labeling that.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The sanctioned entities are Cetera (Advisor Networks, Investment Services, Financial Specialists, Advisors, and Investment Advisers), Cambridge Investment Research (Investment Research and Investment Research Advisors), and KMS Financial Services.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020. “As

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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

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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.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2024

LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign, dubbed PerSwaysion due to the extensive abuse of Microsoft Sway, has been active since at least mid-2019 and was attributed to Vietnamese speaking developers and Nigerian operators. ?ybercriminals Group-IB set up a website , where everyone can check if their email was compromised by PerSwaysion.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Financial Services Organizations Need to Adapt their Security Practices to the Shifting Environment. Even “traditional banks” seek to drive more revenue from digital products, personalized services and experiences. At the same time, financial services organizations need to adapt to a shifting global environment.

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ARMA International

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This article summarizes a report published by AIEF on June 26, 2019. The scope of a records and information management (RIM) program in financial services can seem overwhelming. Financial Services Industry Overview. Drivers for RIM in Financial Services. financial institutions.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

On July 21, 2020, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS or the Department) issued a statement of charges and notice of hearing (the Statement) against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for violations of the Department’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies, 23 N.Y.C.R.R.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

In late April 2019, Fiserv was sued by Bessemer System Federal Credit Union , a comparatively tiny financial institution with just $38 million in assets. In January 2019, Fiserv announced it was acquiring payment processing giant First Data in a $22 billion all-stock deal. And it’s poised to soon get much bigger.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

On February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter No. Thereafter, in 2019, the department created a Cybersecurity Division to focus specifically on protecting industries and consumers from cyberthreats. regulator concerning the increasingly critical issue of cyberinsurance.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On November 28, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced that First American Title Insurance Company (“First American”), the second-largest title insurance company in the United States, would pay a $1 million penalty for violations of the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation in connection with a 2019 data breach.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

1, 2019 to Aug. For more than a decade, MyPayrollHR worked with California-based Cachet Financial Services to process payroll deposits for MyPayrollHR client employees. .” The government alleges Mann was kiting millions of dollars in checks between his accounts at Bank of American and Pioneer from Aug.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

On January 18, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter 2019-1 (the Circular Letter), addressing insurers’ use of external consumer data and information sources in underwriting for life insurance.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. Meanwhile, threat actors’ siege on web applications surged 62 percent in 2020 vs. 2019: Akamai observed nearly 6.3 billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Unprotected server at Brazilian financial services provider exposes customer data (unknown). National Australia Bank notifying customers after data service companies misuse personal data (13,000). The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2019 – 2.2

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In addition, even as recently as 2019, solutions like Microsoft Sentinel are roaring into the space , purpose-built for security use cases. However, there are cases where enterprises, like large players in the financial services vertical, simply need to collect ridiculously vast amounts of data.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Companies should take note of two imminent developments in New York in the area of cybersecurity regulation: enforcement of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation (Regulation) and the effective date of the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act or Act).

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