Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2024

We also offer you AD-Recon for all the target network with passwords.” In December 2023, Toyota Financial Services (TFS) warned customers it had suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive personal and financial data. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) is the finance arm of the Toyota Motor Corporation.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2020

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. According to the company, most of the username and password combinations are available for free, and 5 billion of the above credentials are “unique.”

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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. The attack leveraged multiple Residential IP Proxies based in the APAC region.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. hard drive, storage device, the cloud).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. Plain Text (base64) Passwords.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In reality, the fraudster initiates a transaction — such as the “forgot password” feature on the financial institution’s site — which is what generates the authentication passcode delivered to the member. The fraudster then uses Zelle to transfer the victim’s funds to others.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2021

Threat actors carried out brute-force and password spraying attacks in an attempt to gain access to Microsoft customer accounts. The hackers also targeted non-governmental organizations and think tanks, as well as financial services. In all, 36 countries were targeted.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. “They use lists of usernames and passwords gathered from the breaches you hear about nearly every day on the news. .” The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Interbank , formally the Banco Internacional del Perú Service Holding S.A.A. is a leading Peruvian provider of financial services has over 2 million customers. Alleged stolen data includes personal info, credit card details, CVVs, passwords, and API credentials. TB of company data related to 3 million customers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. Most of the stolen files (50%+) were text files, some of them containing software logs, passwords, personal notes, and other sensitive information.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 19, 2021

Many online services allow users to reset their passwords by clicking a link sent via SMS, and this unfortunately widespread practice has turned mobile phone numbers into de facto identity documents. Which means losing control over one thanks to a divorce, job termination or financial crisis can be devastating.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

. “As of January 2022, the FBI has identified at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including entities in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors,” reads the FBI’s flash alert.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

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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. It then parses the string “ target=TERMSRV ” to identify the hostname, username, and password saved per RDP credential.” Trend Micro experts explained.

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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. The company pointed out that exposed files did not contain passwords that could be used to access financial accounts.

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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. c)); – monitor privileged access activity by implementing a privileged access management (“PAM”) solution, and automatically blocking commonly used passwords (500.7(c));

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2023

Australian loan giant Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) revealed that a data breach its has suffered impacted 14 million customers. The data breach suffered by Latitude Financial Services (Latitude) is much more serious than initially estimated. ” said Latitude Financial CEO Ahmed Fahour.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2022

In other words, bad actors glean lists of breached usernames and passwords and run them against desired logins until they find some that work. And, there remains general bad hygiene surrounding the creation of usernames and passwords, with many being reused over multiple websites. Good password hygiene and password managers. “If

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Threat actors exploited a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40539 , in the Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus software, which is self-service password management and single sign-on solution. KdcSponge allows capturing the domain name, username, and password.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Microsoft discovered multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks against banking and financial services organizations. The proxy server allows attackers to access the traffic and capture the target’s password and the session cookie.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Hacktivists hacked an Irish water utility and interrupted the water supply 5Ghoul flaws impact hundreds of 5G devices with Qualcomm, MediaTek chips Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack Bypassing major EDRs using Pool Party process injection techniques Founder of Bitzlato exchange has pleaded for unlicensed money transmitting (..)

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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. Neither access data nor passwords were published. Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company’s Priceless Specials loyalty program.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2018

As a best practice, customers should always monitor their transactions and credit rating carefully and contact their financial services provider immediately if they become aware of any unusual or unauthorized activities.” million accounts have been temporarily locked until the customers change their passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Consider that some 80 percent of hacking-related breaches occur because of weak or reused passwords, and that over 90 percent of consumers continue to re-use their intrinsically weak passwords. Authentication systems that leverage machine learning and biometric technology are now ready to replace legacy password-centric technologies.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Bessemer said it was moved by that story to launch its own investigation into Fiserv’s systems, and it found a startlingly simple flaw: Firsev’s platform would let anyone reset the online banking password for a customer just by knowing their account number and the last four digits of their Social Security number.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

Compromised credentials will be visible in the “Logs” section with additional details about each victim such as IP address, User-Agent, Username, Password, and etc. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link].

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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

JANUARY 25, 2022

Although he didn’t technically have an account with MSF, their authentication system is based on email addresses, so Jim requested that a password reset link be sent to his email address. ” According to the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA), a trade group in Washington, D.C.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. The modules also used the Scanline network scanner to find file shares (port 135, Server Message Block, SMB) used to spread malware with administrative passwords, compromised with keyloggers. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

Credential stuffing is a type of advanced brute force hacking that leverages software automation to insert stolen usernames and passwords into web page forms, at scale, until the attacker gains access to a targeted account. I rarely, if ever, need to use a password. Data enrichment is a thing that happens in the criminal economy.

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Passwords Authentication Marketing Access 257

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. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bank , and Wells Fargo.

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Passwords Financial Services IT Phishing 292

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

financial services firm Ameriprise uses the domain ameriprise.com; the Disneyland Team’s domain for Ameriprise customers is [link] [brackets added to defang the domain], which displays in the browser URL bar as ? For example, one domain the gang has used since March 2022 is ushank[.]com com — which was created to phish U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Breaking Free from Passwords: Passkeys and the Future of Digital Services josh.pearson@t… Mon, 09/02/2024 - 15:14 As passkeys offer a more secure and convenient way to authenticate users, it is no surprise that industry experts agree that they will become the standard authentication method used worldwide.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2023

Enforce a culture of strong passwords, two-factor authentication and responsible data access practices to foster a security-conscious culture. He has over 25 years of global leadership experience within the financial services industry, having spearheaded development across Electronic Trading, OMS, Risk, Compliance and Data.

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