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

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Make sure your smartphone, tablet and laptop are password-protected, particularly if you’re in the habit of carrying them around wherever you go. Create long and strong passwords. Never use duplicate usernames or passwords across any of your online accounts to limit your exposure in case of a data breach. Lock your devices.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 21, 2024

We also offer you AD-Recon for all the target network with passwords We’re not kidding, we have been on the network for a long time.” ” Toyota and Toyota Financial Services have suffered several breaches in the past, so it’s hard to tell where and when the information was obtained more precisely. Change your password.

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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 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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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. Some of the credential stuffing attacks can be traced back to existing data breaches or phishing.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2024

Financial services had the most breaches, followed by healthcare. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Watch out for fake vendors.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2024

In 2020, Truist provided financial services to about 12 million consumer households. Change your password. You can make a stolen password useless to thieves by changing it. Choose a strong password that you don’t use for anything else. Better yet, let a password manager choose one for you. Take your time.

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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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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Phishing is still one of the most common attack vectors, and the holidays provide an especially appealing time to launch an attack thats been supercharged by modern natural language processing models and novel QR codes. No industry is spared this phishing season, though some are targeted more often than others.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The research in this report is a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), providing an overview of the latest trends and key events across the threat landscape. The term is also used to describe malware seeking access to financial organizations’ IT infrastructures. Financial Phishing.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Underground services are cropping up that are designed to enable bad actors to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs), which are widely used in two-factor authentication programs whose purpose is to better protect customers’ online accounts. By using the services, cybercriminals can gain access to victims’ accounts to steal money.

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The penalized companies are Investment Services, Advisor Networks, Financial Specialists, Investment Advisers, and Advisors, all under the Cetera group. Investment Research Advisors and Investment Research from Cambridge Investment were affected, as well as KMS, a registered financial services provider based in Seattle. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Individuals risk identity theft, financial loss, and privacy violations. Businesses, particularly those in financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors, suffer from operational disruptions and financial penalties. Employees play an integral role in the security of their organization.

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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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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. ransomware and phishing scams).

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Security professionals agree that passwords are low hanging fruit for cybercriminals and can even be the keys to the kingdom when the compromised passwords belong to privileged accounts. According to a 2023 Cisco Duo sponsored survey , only 62% of organizations make MFA mandatory for their entire workforce.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. billion attempts).

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Further, let's imagine there is nothing more than email addresses and passwords exposed on a cat forum. with the prevalence of password reuse in mind. This isn't just a cat forum; it is a repository of credentials that will unlock social media, email, and financial services.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

These services include calling their target victims, appearing to be from their bank, and socially engineering them into handing over a one-time password (OTP)—or other verification code—to the bot operators. ” Intel 147 has been observing these activities since June when services like these started operating. What to do.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. In this research, by financial malware we mean several types of malevolent software. Financial phishing.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In this research, we analyze various types of threats, such as financial malware and phishing pages mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms, banking and payment systems, and discuss recent trends. Over the first ten months of 2022, Kaspersky prevented 38,596,555 financial phishing attacks. Methodology.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

The financial services ecosystem has evolved tremendously over the past few years driven by a surge in the adoption of digital payments. What happens when a customer is “phished” to perform a bank transfer or provide their bank account details to complete a transaction? How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments?

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 21, 2019

Among other things, this slowness means fewer clicked links in phishing emails. By now, we should expect to be seeing puppet shows on the dangers of phishing. They may offer continuous training programs to help thwart phishing attacks and malware infections. Make sure employees know what good password practices look like.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Looking at particular attack methods, Obrela found that those most utilised were typically malware infection, reconnaissance, data exfiltration and phishing attacks, along with the exploitation of malicious insiders. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2023

billion personal records compromised by data breaches in past two years — underscoring need for end‑to‑end encryption Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Ransomware. Other methods.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The archive file we recently discovered contained a password-protected decoy document and a shortcut file named “ Password.txt.lnk “ This is a classic BlueNoroff strategy to persuade the victim to execute the malicious shortcut file to acquire the decoy document’s password. Create a decoy password file and open it.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Why should I care about Phish? The reason why phishing is still reigning supreme?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

The most frequent targets of leakware are hospitals, law firms, and financial services organizations. Email phishing attacks are a common method hackers use to execute leakware. Filtering and analyzing can prevent phishing emails from ever making their way into an employee or executive's inbox.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability. MFA can be hacked.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) Cybersecurity Regulation, introduced in 2017, was groundbreaking, setting a high bar for financial institutions. Email addresses or usernames combined with passwords or security questions. predating similar efforts in many other jurisdictions.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Stolen usernames and passwords are loaded up on botnets, which then relentlessly test them on account logon pages. These baseline account takeovers can then be leveraged to spread spam, distribute phishing scams, launch denial of service attacks, infiltrate and plunder networks, execute wire fraud and more.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 4, 2023

You may be familiar with phishing - emails that look legitimate, but are malicious attempts to get your personal information. The word “smishing” has become a legitimate term that combines the words “Short Message Service (SMS)” and “ Phishing ”. But email isn't the only way hackers try to get your information.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Bad actors are increasingly using a technique called HTML smuggling to deliver ransomware and other malicious code in email campaigns aimed at financial services firms and other organizations, according to Microsoft researchers. Therefore, the user must type the password indicated in the original HTML attachment to open it.

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