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Hackers target financial firms hosting malicious payloads on Google Cloud Storage

Security Affairs

Researchers at Menlo Labs uncovered a malicious email campaign targeting employees of banks and financial services companies abusing Google Cloud Storage. “It’s an example of the increased use of “reputation-jacking”—hiding behind well-known, popular hosting services to help avoid detection.

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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

Information about who registered Webtechnologiesletter.com is completely hidden behind privacy protection services. For example, this press release from 2o11 says Mark Scott is the contact person for a company called Appco Group UK which bills itself as a market leader in face-to-face marketing and sales.

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News Alert: W3C advances technology to streamline payment authentication

The Last Watchdog

for example, Microsoft merchant experiences with SCA under PSD2 ). “Making it easy for people to pay for things online while improving security has been the vision of our working group since we started in 2015,” said Working Group co-Chair Nick Telford-Reed.

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Experts found a new TrickBot module (rdpScanDll) built for RDP bruteforcing operations

Security Affairs

For example, in February 2019 Trend Micro detected a variant that includes a new module used for Remote App Credential-Grabbing. ” The module appears to be under development, but experts pointed out that threat actors already used it to target organizations, mostly in telecoms, education, and financial services sectors.

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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

For example, a security admin might send a message to all team members and then perform a system scan. In this example, the security admin is responsible for alerting his team. A CRM at a large financial services company might have an RTO of 15 minutes, while a storage archive for cold data may have an RTO of 12-24 hours.

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Malware researchers analyzed an intriguing Java ATM Malware

Security Affairs

Experts spotted a Java ATM malware that was relying on the XFS (EXtension for Financial Service) API to “ jackpot ” the infected machine. In that case, the malware was relying on the XFS (EXtension for Financial Service) API to “ jackpot ” the infected machine. Introduction. Evaluation of HTTP request. Pierluigi Paganini.

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New York Regulators Call on Insurers to Strengthen the Cyber Underwriting Process

Hunton Privacy

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. For example, Mondelez International Inc. 2: 15-cv-03432, 2015 U.S.