Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Abanoub Nady (known online as “MRxC0DER”) developed and sold “do it yourself” phish kits and fraudulently used the brand name “ONNX” to sell these services.” ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. Microsoft states that phishing heavily targets financial services, risking losses like life savings.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Industry analysis of the domains used behind phishing and brand impersonation attacks show financial institutions are being leveraged at an alarming rate.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The malware implements multiple anti-analysis techniques, including string obfuscation routine, emulator detection and a domain generation algorithm (DGA). ” reads the analysis published by the researchers. ” SharkBot abuses Accessibility Service to carry out ATS attacks inside the infected device. .

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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. ” reads the analysis published by security researchers at Menlo. The spam campaign uses messages including links that point to archive files such as.zip or.gz.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Recently Cyber researchers for Cyble investigated an attack suffered by on May 30, 2021, by Nucleus Software, an India-based IT company in the Banking and Financial Services sector. Nucleus Software declared that it does not store customers’ financial data. ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Resecurity’s HUNTER (HUMINT) unit spotted the BianLian , White Rabbit , and Mario ransomware gangs collaborating in a joint extortion campaign targeting publicly-traded financial services firms. This is why it is critical to share such intelligence for further analysis with the broader cybersecurity community.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. How can banks, credit unions, and financial advisors keep up with demanding regulations while battling restricted budgets and higher employee turnover? One often-overlooked area of impact analysis is IT resilience.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years. The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

New analysis of attacks on the financial sector shows that the combination of phishing emails and compromised credentials is a recurring — and financially impactful — threat.

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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. billion per month.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

For other financial services firms outside of the insurance sector, property accepted as loan security might face climate-related risks as well. Across the financial sector, there are transition risks to consider as we move to a low-carbon economy. Financial services firms can use the tool for “what if?”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Lumen Technologies. The experts were able to enumerate the C2s and targets of multiple distinct Chaos clusters, some of which were employed in recent DDoS attacks against the gaming, financial services and technology, and media and entertainment industries. ” continues the report.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 15, 2020

New York's Department of Financial Services calls for more cybersecurity regulation at social media firms following the "jarringly easy" Twitter breach.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

We recommend using Dr. Michele Moscas theorem of quantum risk against an optimistic vs. pessimistic probability analysis. Financial services firms have to protect sensitive data like customers bank account information. This is where the concern of harvest now, decrypt later attacks apply.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

These projections stem from an in-depth analysis of the underground economy’s evolution on the Dark Web and a thorough examination of significant cybersecurity incidents targeting corporations and governments.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

This trick can be successful against ransomware detection software that relies on inspecting content using statistical analysis to detect encryption.” ransomware: The victims of the Lockfile ransomware gang are in the manufacturing, financial services, engineering, legal, business services, and travel and tourism sectors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The majority of intercepted credentials by Agent Tesla related to financial services, online-retailers, e-government systems and personal and business e-mail accounts. . Researchers found active instances of Agent Tesla and developed a mechanism to enumerate the affected clients and extract compromised data.

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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

Update to security note release on January 2019 Patch Day: [ CVE-2018-2484 ] Missing Authorization check in SAP Enterprise Financial Services. ” reads the analysis published by security firm Onapsis. CVE-2019-0279 ] Missing Authorization check for ABAP INST function module. [

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

.” 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. The module implements three attack modes, named check, trybrute and brute.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint. ” The TA505 group was first spotted by Proofpoint back 2017, it has been active at least since 2015 and targets organizations in financial and retail industries. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks. The analysis of the global telemetry from Palo Alto Networks revealed that attackers targeted at least 370 Zoho ManageEngine servers in the United States alone. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2024

. “These techniques have several advantages: they require less skilled developers, expand the malware’s target base to any bank, and bypass various behavioural detection countermeasures put in place by multiple banks and financial services.”

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

On November 1, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) released the finalized amendments of Part 500 of its cybersecurity regulations. These revisions represent the most significant modifications since the enactment of the rules in March 2017.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published today its first TAG quarterly report that analyzes rising trends in nation-state and financially motivated attacks. The Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is a group inside the Google’s security team that tracks operations conducted by nation-state actors and cybercrime groups.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

” reads the technical analysis published by Ambionics security. Hackers targeted dozens of Imperva’s customers, including organizations in the government and financial services sectors. ” reads the analysis published by Imperva. ” reads the post from Imperva.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

ybercriminals behind the PerSwaysion campaign gained access to many confidential corporate MS Office365 emails of mainly financial service companies, law firms, and real estate groups. The detailed technical analysis of PerSwaysion operations and attack scheme is available in Group-IB’s blog post. Who are “The PerSwayders”?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

financial institutions and two banks in Canada and the Netherlands. “Analysis of the latest Qbot campaign shows that it is mainly focused on the United States (see Figure 1), targeting approximately 36 U.S. financial institutions and two banks in Canada and the Netherlands;” reads the report published by F5 Labs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia. “Combining all the links we discovered during our analysis of our incident, it is not out of the question that Winnti is behind the Clambling backdoor, or at least a sub-group operating under the Winnti umbrella.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2019

The experts explained that had access to an ATM of Diebold vendor and started analyzing the machine a simple PC running Windows OS and exposing some services implemented by the ATM provider. The focused their analysis on the Spiservice service listening on post 8043. ” reads the post published by the experts.

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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.” . “It is also significant because it makes blockchain analytics available to the public for the first time,” Robinson wrote. ” That may not be entirely true.

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Collibra

JULY 21, 2021

Financial services are highly regulated and maintain a strong focus on compliance and risk management. Considering that major financial organizations handle enormous amounts of data today, they require data accuracy and integrity at all times to minimize risks. What is data quality in financial services?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2024

Scientists at NTT Research are working on an advanced type of cryptography that enables businesses to perform aggregate data analysis on user data — without infringing upon individual privacy rights. Both regulations have profound implications for companies seeking to collect and apply aggregate statistical analysis to consumer data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

New Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Institutions in New York State Take Effect November 1, 2024 madhav Fri, 10/25/2024 - 06:09 The next major deadline for compliance with the updated cybersecurity rules from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is November 1, 2024.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Microsoft researchers warn of banking adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing and BEC attacks targeting banking and financial organizations. Microsoft discovered multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks against banking and financial services organizations.

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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. ” concludes the analysis. The new strain of the Trickbot banking trojan that a updated info-stealing module. llows it to harvest remote desktop application credentials.

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