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. See also: How to Prevent Ransomware Attacks. What Is HTML Smuggling?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. London-based OCR Labs is a major provider of digital ID verification tools. Data leak affected QBANK, Defence Bank, Bloom Money, Admiral Money, MA Money, and Reed.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7 TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 It is not known how long the database was publicly available, nor whether anyone else accessed it. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. Data breached: 2.7

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“Over the past few months, we’ve seen actors provide access to services that call victims, appear as a legitimate call from a specific bank and deceive victims into typing an OTP or other verification code into a mobile phone in order to capture and deliver the codes to the operator,” the Intel 471 researchers wrote.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A Don't get caught in a phishing net!

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

In 2015, penetration tester Oliver Münchow was asked by a Swiss bank to come up with a better way to test and educate bank employees so that passwords never left the network perimeter. And they also increasingly leveraged hosted servers and public cloud tools, thus adding to their stealth factor. This is a very creative tool.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

Overall, the use of stolen credentials is the overwhelming leader in data breaches, being involved in nearly 45% of breaches – this is more than double the second-place spot of "Other" (which includes a number of types of threat actions) and ransomware, which sits at around 20% of data breaches.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. According to the report, the financial services industry as a target has increased by 72% over 2022 and was the single largest target of financial fraud attacks, representing 49% of all such attacks.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Source (New) Finance USA Yes 1,955,385 BerryDunn and Reliable Networks Source (New) Finance and IT services USA Yes 1,107,354 VISAV Limited Source (New) IT services UK Yes >1,000,000 Designed Receivable Solutions, Inc. Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Finance USA Yes 498,686 J.P.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Even the most resilient systems today can still be breached with the right tools and sufficient resources, and there is not yet a unified theory or framework for addressing vulnerabilities in every context.

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