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2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report: Trends in Financial Services

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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. A lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect privileged accounts was another culprit, at 10%, also 7 percentage points lower than average.

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New Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Institutions in New York State Take Effect November 1, 2024

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The cybersecurity regulations apply to entities overseen by the NYDFS, such as financial institutions, insurance companies, agents, and brokers, as well as banks, trusts, mortgage lenders and brokers, money transmitters, check cashers, and other related businesses.

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The Future of Payments Security

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Even when banking organizations are upgrading security posture to safeguard sensitive financial information, hackers can steal the data intelligently by tying known vulnerabilities together, and making it turn out to be a potential attack. In fact, recent reports highlight that “half of all mobile banking apps are vulnerable.”

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Financial cyberthreats in 2021

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Driven by poverty and unemployment, cybercriminals intensified their malicious activity against bank customers and bank infrastructure. Well-known financial threats remain prominent. This report aims to offer thorough insights into the financial cyberthreat landscape in 2021. share for banking. Methodology.

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Financial Cyberthreats in 2020

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We have dubbed the first four families to have done this ( Guildma, Javali, Melcoz, Grandoreiro ) “the Tétrade” Later on the authors of Guildma also created the new banking malware Ghimob targeting users located in Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Germany, Angola, and Mozambique. As can be seen from the graph above, 37.2%

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Cyber Security Awareness Month – Answering Google’s Most Commonly Asked Questions

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Encryption, data sovereignty, multifactor authentication and website cookies are all vital ideas and technologies to keep consumers’ personal data safe – but research released this month reveals widespread confusion. Multifactor Authentication What is multifactor authentication? Encryption What is encryption?

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Financial cyberthreats in 2022

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However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. The good news is that regardless of these continuous advancements, we’ve witnessed a steady decrease in the number of attacks by banking Trojans.

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