Schneier on Security

JANUARY 19, 2018

Financial Services, Transportation, and Global Telecom. Financial Services, U.S. If we want better security, we need to regulate the market. Based on returns, the most impacted industries at the 3 day post-breach date were U.S. At the 90 day post-breach date, the three most impacted industries were U.S.

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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. This is why it is critical to share such intelligence for further analysis with the broader cybersecurity community.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2023

This marks a monumental leap forward in secure financial and healthcare data analytics, enabling encrypted data to be safely analyzed and visualized for the first time, all while maintaining absolute data privacy and security. San Francisco and Cork, Ireland, Aug.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The idea is that even if the user’s password gets stolen, the attacker still can’t access the user’s account without that second factor — i.e. without access to the victim’s mobile device or phone number. The OTP interception service featured earlier this year — Otp[.]agency Image: Intel 471.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Security researchers from Cleafy discovered a new Android banking trojan, named SharkBot, that is targeting banks in Europe. At the end of October, researchers from cyber security firms Cleafy and ThreatFabric have discovered a new Android banking trojan named SharkBot. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Businesses at large would do well to model their data collection and security processes after what the IC refers to as the “intelligence cycle.” In the same vein, businesses at large can use the intelligence cycle as a model to detect and deter any attacks coming from foreign intelligence services. infrastructure from cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Security experts from Cybereason Nocturnus team discovered a new piece of Android malware dubbed EventBot that targets banks, financial services across Europe. Researchers from Cybereason Nocturnus team discovered a new piece of Android malware dubbed EventBot that targets banks, financial services across Europe.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 23, 2024

The speech: key points As part of his speech, Mr Rathi explained that the FCA plans to examine how Big Tech firms’ unique access to large sets of data could unlock better products, more competitive prices and wider choice for consumers and businesses. cybersecurity, financial stability, interconnectedness, data concerns or market integrity).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 13, 2021

Come check out Antinalysis, the new address risk analyzer,” reads the service’s announcement, pointing to a link only accessible via ToR. But with countless criminals now making millions from ransomware, there is certainly a vast, untapped market for services that help those folks improve their operational security.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

SAP released the April 2019 Security Patch Day that is included 6 Security Notes, two of which address High severity flaws in Crystal Reports and NetWeaver. SAP released 6 Security Notes as part of the April 2019 Security Patch Day, two of which address High severity flaws in Crystal Reports and NetWeaver.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Lumen Technologies. The experts were able to enumerate the C2s and targets of multiple distinct Chaos clusters, some of which were employed in recent DDoS attacks against the gaming, financial services and technology, and media and entertainment industries. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2020

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online. vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Financial Services Access Privacy Security 111

Hunton Privacy

JULY 5, 2023

On June 28, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) published an updated proposed Second Amendment (“Amendment”) to its Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR Part 500. On November 9, 2022, NYDFS published a first draft of the proposed Amendment and received comments from stakeholders over a 60-day period.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “This implies that adversaries can execute around 150 different techniques that will be undetected by the SIEM,” says the CardinalOps report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Researchers at Menlo Labs uncovered a malicious email campaign targeting employees of banks and financial services companies abusing Google Cloud Storage. With this attack scheme, threat actors are able to bypass security controls in place within targeted organizations. ” Menlo Labs concludes. ” Menlo Labs concludes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Agent Tesla , first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from its operators’ targets. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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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. billion per month.

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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. Shifting security challenge. Early traction.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

In Ploutus attacks, threat actors with access to these teller machines physically connects an external keyboard to to the ATM to launch the attack. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

Malicious Chrome browser extensions were used in a massive surveillance campaign aimed at users working in the financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, government organizations, and pharmaceuticals. ” reads the analysis published by Awake Security. ” continues the report.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. North Hill Home Health Care, Inc.,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

Researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes linked a series of ransomware attacks to the China-linked APT27 group. Security researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes investigated a series of ransomware attacks against multiple organizations and linked them to China-linked APT groups.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

million patients when hackers gained unauthorized access to databases operated by a third-party billing vendor. One might assume top-tier financial services firms and healthcare vendors would have solved third-party cyber exposures by now. Late last year, Atrium Health disclosed it lost sensitive data for some 2.65

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

OCR concludes most cyber-attacks could be prevented or substantially mitigated if HIPAA covered entities and business associates implemented HIPAA Security Rule requirements to address the most common types of attacks. implement a security awareness and training program for all workforce members pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

And breaches will occur – because bad guys make a living by figuring out ways to circumvent security best practices. Prioritize Data Protection The downfall of many security strategies is that they become too general and too thinly spread. But it requires different levels of security.

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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. Cyberattack Statistics. Other methods.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

As a bonus, many of these tools are free to access and have specialized feeds that focus on different industries and sectors. As a bonus, many of these tools are free to access and have specialized feeds that focus on different industries and sectors.

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Cybersecurity Access Metadata Energy and Utilities 72

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. The ServHelper is a backdoor, experts analyzed two variants of it, while FlawedGrace is a remote access trojan (RAT). ” continues Proofpoint.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 14, 2022

As privacy incidents and security breaches involving personal information become increasingly frequent, organizations are more and more aware of the importance of implementing a robust privacy program to mitigate the risks and impacts of such incidents. Furthermore, organizations should remember the investigative powers granted to regulators.

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Info Source

JULY 18, 2023

Some business applications primarily involve Capturing ID, e.g., hospitality or access restrictions. End customers and service providers need to adjust their process steps to support the additional input source and more importantly the hybrid inputs which will shift towards eIDs. BROADENS THE SCOPE CONSIDERABLY eIDAS 2.0,

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

Notably, the deployment process of phishing pages is fully automated – “Frappo” is leveraging a pre-configured Docker container and a secure channel allowing it to collect compromised credentials via API. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is behind new campaigns against South Korean supply chains that leverage stolen security certificates. . Security experts from ESET reported that North-Korea-linked Lazarus APT (aka HIDDEN COBRA ) is behind cyber campaigns targeting South Korean supply chains. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Financial Services Phishing Government Security 103

Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2019

Automated teller machine vendor Diebold Nixdorf has released security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability in older ATMs. Diebold Nixdorf discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in older ATMs and is urging its customers in installing security updates it has released to address the flaw. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Libraries Communications Financial Services Risk 92

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2021

This includes security, help desk, networking, and application performance. The ManageEngine IT security portfolio spans everything from privileged access management (PAM) to network configuration to password management. It provides controls for managing security from all angles. Cloud Security Plus.

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Cloud Financial Services Compliance Manufacturing 52

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Although California has recently captured the lion’s share of attention with respect to privacy and security, on October 23, 2019, New York’s amended security breach law goes into effect, and on March 1, 2020, new security safeguards go live (N.Y. Readers may recall that New York’s security breach notification law (N.Y.

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