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U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million

Krebs on Security

Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Wednesday the trio’s activities involved extortion, phishing, direct attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks, as well as malicious applications that masqueraded as software tools to help people manage their cryptocurrency holdings. Image: CISA.

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MY TAKE: Coping with security risks, compliance issues spun up by ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

A core security challenge confronts just about every company today. While the benefits of DX are highly-touted , this shift has also spawned a whole new tier of unprecedented privacy and security challenges. The cloud is kind of dragging this movement along and DevOps and security are center stage, at the moment.”

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

Security Affairs

Security experts from Bitdefender recently discovered a new TrickBot variant that is targeting telecommunications organizations in the United States and Hong Kong. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features. Pierluigi Paganini.

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UK regulators’ strategic approaches to AI: a guide to key regulatory priorities for AI governance professionals

Data Protection Report

These principles (the Principles) are: Safety, security and robustness. More broadly, it considers potential issues that could be raised by AI (for example, anti-competitive self-preferencing). Appropriate transparency and explainability. Accountability and governance. Contestability and redress.

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

Krebs on Security

According to Farsight Security , a company that keeps historic records of which Web sites were hosted at which Internet addresses, Weblistingsinc.org was for a while hosted at the IP address 68.169.45.65 weblistingsinc.net 2016-02-09 ENOM, INC.,ENOM, weblistingsinc.net 2016-02-09 ENOM, INC.,ENOM, Helpmego.to

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Open APIs: A coming of age

CGI

Fri, 12/02/2016 - 04:15. One of the hottest topics at this year’s Sibos conference in Geneva, Switzerland was open APIs (application programming interfaces), and how their introduction is causing concern among some financial institutions, while offering promising opportunities for early adopters. Balancing ease of use versus security.

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U.S. Warns of Threat to Financial Industry Posed by North Korean Cyberattacks

Data Matters

Recent examples of cyberattacks attributed to North Korea include WannaCry 2.0, Adopting cybersecurity best practices helps to create a secure and resilient international cybersecurity infrastructure. The Advisory recommends that financial institutions take independent steps to protect against the North Korean cyber threat.