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.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. We notified FBS of the breach so they could take appropriate action to secure the data. Plain Text (base64) Passwords. Financial details such as.

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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. The IT giant quickly removed the access and secured the device. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

A Pennsylvania credit union is suing financial industry technology giant Fiserv , alleging that “baffling” security vulnerabilities in the company’s software are “wreaking havoc” on its customers. Most alarmingly, this security control was purely illusory.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Akamai report titled “[state of the internet] / security CREDENTIAL STUFFING ATTACKS “ the credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat and often underestimated. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services.

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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

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. Unfortunately, Otsuka said, the scammers are defeating this layered security control as well.

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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 security breach was first reported by BleepingComputer that also shared a copy of the data breach notification letter sent to the impacted customers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense , whose products are designed to allow companies to view the status of multiple third-party online services in a single dashboard. “We will provide updates as more information becomes available.”

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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

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 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. Latitude reported the security breach to the Australian Federal Police.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. The post Mastercard data breach affected Priceless Specials loyalty program appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Solid Data Security: The Foundation of a Safe Digital World madhav Thu, 10/17/2024 - 04:58 It’s that time of year again. This year’s theme, “Secure Our World,” encourages people to safeguard the digital assets that are instrumental to their personal and professional lives. Oh, and it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The result?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2018

As an additional security precaution, we have locked all Air Canada mobile App accounts to protect our customers’ data.” Credit cards that are saved to your profile are encrypted and stored in compliance with security standards set by the payment card industry or PCI standards. ” reads the data breach notification.

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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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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Much more effective authentication is needed to help protect our digital environment – and make user sessions smoother and much more secure. 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.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

Like a SaaS-based services and platform for legitimate businesses, “Frappo” allows cybercriminals to minimize costs for the development of phishing-kits, and to use the same on a bigger scale. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link]. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2021

Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. billion hitting financial services organizations — an increase of more than 45 percent year-over-year in that sector. billion web attacks globally; 736 million in the financial services sector.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Security experts observed the LuckyMouse APT group using a digitally signed 32- and 64-bit network filtering driver NDISProxy in recent attacks. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 ? Most Web browser makers, however, have spent years adding security protections to block such nefarious activity.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. Without it, it’s close to impossible for an organization to act securely and in accordance with rules and regulations.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The challenge of the moment is that many companies already have their hands full trying to improve their security posture as they migrate their legacy, on premises, IT systems to the cloud. The operating systems of home IoT devices today typically get shipped with minimal logon security. This is a sign of IoT attacks to come.

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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 had the chance to discuss this with Akamai security researcher Steve Ragan, the author of the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Millions of customers of large businesses have been left vulnerable to identity theft, thanks to a security flaw that exposes their personal data to illicit download. Among those affected are clients of Europcar, a vehicle rental service, and FxPro, a trading platform. ” -Mikail Tunç, a security researcher. First contact.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2023

Related: Preserving the privacy of the elderly As more traders and investors engage in these investment avenues, it is crucial to adopt robust security measures to safeguard sensitive and regulated information. Continuous threat detection is a proactive approach to maintaining trading environment security.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

But Jim has long had a security freeze on his credit file with the three major consumer credit reporting bureaus , and none of the lenders seemed willing to proceed without at least a peek at his credit history. ” According to the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA), a trade group in Washington, D.C.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

And innovation is percolating among newer entrants, like PerimeterX, Shape Security and Signal Sciences. This week a new entrant in this field, Cequence Security , formally launched what it describes as a “game-changing” application security platform. Botnets can test stolen usernames and passwords at scale.

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

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