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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Financial Services Phishing 106

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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Insurance Financial Services Mining Access 327

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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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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Financial Services Phishing Security 92

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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Financial Services Cybersecurity Compliance Government 111

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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Privacy Data Privacy GDPR Personal data 263

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report: Trends in Financial Services madhav Tue, 10/15/2024 - 05:17 Financial services (FinServ) firms are key players in the global economy. As a result, FinServ organizations have some of the largest cybersecurity budgets and most advanced defenses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 4, 2024

IBM has created the solution for this problem with its Financial Services Cloud offering, and its ISV Financial Services validation program, which is designed to de-risk the partner ecosystem for clients. IBM Cloud Framework for Financial services is uniquely positioned for that, meeting all these requirements.

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Financial Services Cloud Compliance Digital transformation 55

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

. “Over the past few months, we’ve seen actors provide access to services that call victims, appear as a legitimate call from a specific bank and deceive victims into typing an OTP or other verification code into a mobile phone in order to capture and deliver the codes to the operator.

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Passwords Authentication Phishing Access 351

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

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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Financial Services Access Security IT 144

Info Source

DECEMBER 18, 2024

KEY TAKEAWAYS Market Scope and Methodology : This assessment of vertical opportunities for IDP solutions is a key pillar of Infosources analyst services. The quantitative analysis of IDP investments by industry sector is based on vendor inputs and forecasts future demand based on industry dynamics in key countries.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2022

Financial services, health, home security, governance and all other mission critical services are now provided online. But these accounts are not all about networking and games. Related: What happened to privacy in 2021. COVID crisis has forced us to work remotely. Our children now take classes online.

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Privacy Artificial Intelligence Financial Services Archiving 223

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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Ransomware Encryption File names Financial Services 145

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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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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Financial Services Access Privacy Security 142

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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Insurance Data breaches Financial Services Passwords 110

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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Mining Financial Services IT Security 124

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

While several open-source tools exist for disk and data capture, network analysis, and specific device forensics, a growing number of vendors are building off what’s publicly available. Critical capabilities include timeline analysis, hash filtering, file and folder flagging, and multimedia extraction. The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy.

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e-Discovery Computer and Electronics Marketing Compliance 138

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Determine the issues to be addressed and what information could be gathered to provide answers. Collection. Gather raw data from various sources. Processing. Synthesize the raw data into a usable state. Apply information and process management to yield insights. Integate and evaluate the data into actionable final intelligence products.

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Security Financial Services Manufacturing Data collection 149

Reltio

JULY 2, 2019

Just like in the TV programmes like CSI where the analysts solve crimes by a combination of analysis and field work, there is no better way of understanding what is going on than going into the real-world for example visiting shops or listening into call-centre conversations. What do you like to do outside of work?

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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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Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Ransomware Data breaches 138

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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Encryption Ransomware Financial Services Manufacturing 143

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

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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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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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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erwin

AUGUST 13, 2020

Taking months to perform impact analysis and solution design is no longer viable, and data has to be agile. And the platform also supports business process modeling and analysis. Today’s enterprises need to be agile to react quickly: Things change fast in our current landscape. As a result it loses its business dimension and support.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Compliance Financial Services 143

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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Authentication Financial Services Communications Access 141

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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Financial Services CMS Government Security 105

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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Also called “fraud prevention tools,” these solutions are designed to enhance and aid in the analysis, detection, and management of fraud and other illicit activities across all aspects of a business. In our analysis and review of the fraud prevention, detection and management market, a number of providers stood out.

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Analytics Risk Authentication Financial Services 112

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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Libraries Communications Financial Services Security 111

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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Ransomware Encryption Financial Services Cybersecurity 135

erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

That’s time needed and better used for data analysis. The banking, financial services and insurance industry typically deals with higher data velocity and tighter regulations than most. Metadata-Driven Automation in the BFSI Industry. Plus many organizations in this sector find that they’ve outgrown their systems.

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