eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021. How ransomware works. Screenshot example.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

This article looks at the top digital forensic software tools of 2021 and what customers should consider when buying or acquiring a DSF tool. Best Digital Forensics Software Tools of 2021. X-Ways tools can access disks and RAID configurations and easily detect NTFS and ADS. The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy. ProDiscover.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 17, 2021

On August 11, 2021, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)1 issued guidance establishing risk management principles and practices to support the authentication of users accessing a financial institution’s information systems and customers accessing a financial institution’s digital banking services (the Guidance).

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Reltio

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The recent report, The Forrester Wave™: Master Data Management , Q4 2021 notes that “Master data management helps accelerate digital transformation initiative.” The Forrester Wave™ for Master Data Management Q4 2021 report calls out that: “ Reltio is a one-stop shop for MDM deployment with advanced capabilities.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

. “The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. Nissan is working with its global incident response team and relevant stakeholders to investigate the extent of the incident and whether any personal information has been accessed.”

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 22, 2021

As individuals become more aware of their rights under data protection law, data subject access requests ( DSARs ) are an increasingly frequent concern for organisations both large and small. This allows for restrictions on the right of access: “ where the restrictions are necessary and proportionate ….

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

On June 24, 2022, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS” or the “Department”) announced it had entered into a $5 million settlement with Carnival Corp. NYDFS also found that Carnival had failed to implement basic protocols to prevent data breaches.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

The three vulnerabilities used in ProxyShell attacks are: CVE-2021-34473 – Pre-auth Path Confusion leads to ACL Bypass (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-34523 – Elevation of Privilege on Exchange PowerShell Backend (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-31207 – Post-auth Arbitrary-File-Write leads to RCE (Patched in May by KB5003435 ).

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On August 30, 2021, the U.S. 34-92806 ; and In the Matter of KMS Financial Services, Inc. , Release No. 34-92807 , August 30, 2021. According to the SEC order against KMS Financial Services Inc., The cases are In the Matter of Cetera Advisor Networks LLC , Release No.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

USDoD said they gained access to the FBI’s InfraGard system by applying for a new account using the name, Social Security Number, date of birth and other personal details of a chief executive officer at a company that was highly likely to be granted InfraGard membership. .” Department of Defense.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 1, 2021

Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 Intuit says the change is tied to an “exciting” and “free” new service that will let millions of small business employees get easy access to employment and income verification services when they wish to apply for a loan or line of credit.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. — Cream Finance (@CreamdotFinance) August 30, 2021. peckshield) August 30, 2021. peckshield) August 30, 2021. It promises earnings to users who are passively holding ETH or wBTC.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The rise of check fraud According to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), reports of check fraud have more than doubled over the last three years. FinCEN reported 680,000 cases of possible check fraud in 2022, up from 350,000 in 2021 , indicating a 23% increase over 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2021

Razer is a very popular computer peripherals manufacturer that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, financial services, and gaming hardware, including gaming mouses and keyboards. The flaw was discovered by the security researcher jonhat that disclosed it via Twitter: Need local admin and have physical access?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. SAP’s in-memory data access will give you top-of-the-line big data and predictive analytics capabilities tied to risk management. LogicManager. Back to top.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

“The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. Nissan is working with its global incident response team and relevant stakeholders to investigate the extent of the incident and whether any personal information has been accessed.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for individuals, institutions and protocols to access financial services. — Cream Finance (@CreamdotFinance) October 27, 2021. pic.twitter.com/eLPMz3YEII — SlowMist (@SlowMist_Team) October 27, 2021. ETH and 60 tokens including HBTC, USDT, BUSD, etc.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. Guidehouse advised us that data that it maintained for Morgan Stanley had been accessed through the Accellion FTA vulnerability.”

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In 2021, on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes commanded a 43 percent global market share as compared to 57 percent for cloud Exchange mailboxes, according to this report from Statista. Here are some of the common Exchange server failure scenarios companies face daily: •“Information Store Service” fails to start up.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Third-party and open-source reports have identified a possible link between Cuba ransomware actors, RomCom Remote Access Trojan (RAT) actors, and Industrial Spy ransomware actors.” ” Since December 2021 Cuba operators are continuing to target U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 12, 2021

On June 30, 2021, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS,” the “Department”) issued guidance to all New York state regulated entities on ransomware (the “Guidance”), identifying controls it expects regulated companies to implement whenever possible.

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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. million of payments in 2021 and the first half of 2022,” the report summarized.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. Prevalence. million in adjusted losses.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Curiously, the fraudsters had taken out a loan in Jim’s name with MSF using his real email address — the same email address the fraudsters had used to impersonate him to MSF back in May 2021. ” According to the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA), a trade group in Washington, D.C.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. In January, German intelligence warned of Chinese nation-state actors targeting commercial organizations with HyperBro remote access trojans (RAT). The group also targeted a hospital in South East Asia.

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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. billion web app attacks last year, with more than 736 million targeting financial services. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector. A: Everything.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The malware has been active at least since late October 2021, it targeting the mobile users of banks in Italy, the UK, and the US. Once the banking Trojan is installed on the victim’s device, threat actors can steal sensitive banking information through the abuse of Accessibility Services (i.e.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

We continue to make key updates to our cloud infrastructure to drive progress that has resulted in improvements to cloud stability and resiliency, including an 87% year-over-year reduction in Severity 1 Customer Impacting Events (CIEs) and a 38% decrease in Severity 1 CIE disruption time for the same compared periods in 2022 versus 2021.

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Data Matters

JUNE 24, 2021

On June 15, 2021, the SEC announced settled charges against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for disclosure controls and procedures violations related to a cybersecurity vulnerability that exposed sensitive customer information. This resolution highlights the SEC’s continued focus on cybersecurity. 20, 2017).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. That prediction proved correct. Mirai Still on the Loose.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

billion in reported fraud in 2021 alone. For example, Experian’s 2021 Global Identity and Fraud Report stated that 82% of surveyed businesses had adopted customer recognition strategies. According to a report by the United States Sentencing Commission, the median loss of healthcare fraud in 2021 was over $1 million per infraction.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2022

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. APT27 has been exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and in the Zoho AdSelf Service Plus1 software since March 2021.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 22, 2021

On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $3 million settlement with insurance company National Securities Corp. NSC’s investigation revealed that the unauthorized access to the employee’s MS O365 account occurred between September 13 and September 18, likely through phishing.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 2, 2021

On May 13, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a $1.8 The insurer activated its incident response plan and concluded that the threat actor had obtained credentials from several employees and had access to customer non-public personal information between June 1, 2018 and October 20, 2018.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The only exemptions are “blind data” that contain no personal identifiers or publicly available information; and Customer information will be considered to be “unencrypted” in situations in which the encryption key was also accessed without authorization, regardless of whether the customer information was encrypted.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 5, 2021

The European Commission (EC) signalled plans for a new Data Act, to be published in late 2021, in its February 2020 Data Strategy Communication. The EC revealed more details in its 2021 Consultation and Inception Impact Assessment. Fairness test to avoid unilaterally imposed unfair conditions for access to and use of data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

Microsoft recently published a report that states, titled “March 2021 Security Signals report,” that revealed that more than 80% of enterprises were victims of at least one firmware attack in the past two years. The study pointed out that only 29% of the targeted organizations have allocated budgets to protect firmware. .

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