Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. “The Department of State is announcing reward offers totaling up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of any individual participating in a LockBit ransomware variant attack and for information leading to the identification and/or location of any key leaders of the LockBit ransomware group.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

The advisory was published in coordination with the US Treasury Department and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The AvosLocker ransomware appends the.avoslinux extension to the filenames of all the encrypted files, then drops ransom notes in each folder containing the encrypted files.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

With IBM Cloud for Financial Services , a first-of-its-kind cloud with built-in controls informed by the industry, we are working to help clients on their missions to mitigate this risk, positioning financial services and other regulated industries to host applications and workloads in the cloud in a secured environment.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2021

The American multinational investment bank and financial services firm Morgan Stanley discloses a data breach caused by the hack of an Accellion FTA server of a third-party vendor. The company pointed out that exposed files did not contain passwords that could be used to access financial accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Nearly 26 million login credentials (emails, login credentials) were stolen from almost a million websites, the data were categorized into 12 different groups based on the type of website. million unique email addresses, NordLocker found, for an array of different apps and services. The 26 million login credentials held 1.1

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Like other ransomware gangs, Cuba used ‘double extortion’ techniques which means that it exfiltrates data from the target systems before encrypting them and demanding a ransom payment, threatening to publicly release it if payment is not made. “FBI has identified a sharp increase in the both the number of compromised U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 million in adjusted losses.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to BleepingComputer , the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group took responsibility for an attack on McLaren’s network on 4 October. Customer data, which was encrypted, was reported to be unaffected. DP World Australia’s investigation and ongoing remediation work are likely to continue for some time.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

A criminal group called Maze has claimed responsibility.” The attack took place on March 14th, 2020, when the Maze Ransomware operators exfiltrated data from the HMR’s network and then encrypt their systems. “Consider contacting CIFAS (the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service) to apply for protective registration.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 20, 2021

This introduces a data lifecycle security framework, and represents the key guideline for handling personal and other financial information by financial institutions (i.e. similar to the PIS Specification, but focused on the banking and financial services industry). Level 1: public data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

during the transaction process without the knowledge of both customer and service provider. Security researchers often use the term “magecart” to refer to different groups of cybercriminals that perform various types of skimming attacks. There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization. Encryption.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

Frappo” is actively advertised in the Dark Web and on Telegram where it has a group with over 1,965 active members – there cybercriminals discuss how successful they’ve been at attacking the customers of various online services. The last update of the service was registered May 1, 2022.

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Phishing Retail Financial Services Data breaches 76

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Security experts observed the LuckyMouse APT group using a digitally signed 32- and 64-bit network filtering driver NDISProxy in recent attacks. The APT group has been active since at least 2010, the crew targeted U.S. defense contractors and financial services firms worldwide.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2024

As stated by the International Association of Privacy Professional ( IAPP ) critical sectors such as financial services are therefore conspicuously excluded, leaving organizations without a clear pathway to data protection compliance and potentially exposing them to significant risks.

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Data Privacy Personal data Privacy Cloud 83

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The new variant is being spread via spam emails that pose as tax-incentive notification purporting to be from the financial services company Deloitte. The new strain of the Trickbot banking trojan that a updated info-stealing module. llows it to harvest remote desktop application credentials. Trend Micro experts explained.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! Statistics.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Ransomware attacks use malware, often injected through phishing schemes, to encrypt a victim’s data files or programs, followed by a ransom demand by the threat actor that offers the decryption key in exchange for payment. Payment is often demanded in bitcoin, and thus third-party services are often used to make such payments.

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Ransomware Compliance Risk Government 68

Collibra

MARCH 23, 2021

ATB Financial provides a diversified set of financial services to more than 770,000 residents of Alberta, Canada. Being a regionally focused institution, the group is dedicated to knowing its customers intimately, understanding their needs and providing products and services that help them achieve their goals.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 30, 2019

Some states – such as Alabama, Massachusetts and New York (for financial services companies) – prescribe particular requirements of a “reasonable” cybersecurity program. At least nine states expressly extend these requirements to service providers.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

For teams in industries like financial services, healthcare, and government, the more specific the access rule, the better. These include specifying details for firewall rules, managing rules in groups, and making rules readable, sufficiently secure, and collaborative with other rules.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2022

Related: The role of post-quantum encryption. Quantum computers pose yet another looming threat since it has been mathematically proven that quantum computers with enough power will crack all the world’s public encryption. We most recently witnessed this as Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The cybercrime group claims to have stolen 1 TB of data from the hospital and threatens to leak it. The message published by the gang on its leak site emphasizes that they didn’t encrypt data to avoid causing malfunctions to the hospital’s medical equipment.

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Ransomware Phishing Encryption Financial Services 115

Reltio

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Reltio serves several retail, travel and hospitality, and financial services customers that experience significant seasonal spikes in their usage. Many customers, including those in financial services and healthcare, say using Reltio allowed them to adopt other cloud solutions more quickly and implement their “cloud-first” strategy.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

Vamosi: So, if a hacker wanted to, they could register as a peloton user, and then with a few tools, obtain all the user IDs, instructor IDs, group memberships and whether or not somebody was in a studio. But then again, as with encryption, you still find people who just for whatever reason, manage to roll their own until it breaks.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

Vamosi: So, if a hacker wanted to, they could register as a peloton user, and then with a few tools, obtain all the user IDs, instructor IDs, group memberships and whether or not somebody was in a studio. But then again, as with encryption, you still find people who just for whatever reason, manage to roll their own until it breaks.

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Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Professional services USA Yes 56,457 Highlands Oncology Group Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 55,297 Charm Sciences, Inc. Drug Mart Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 36,749 Elliott Group Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 31.5

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

approach in that the attackers copy and exfiltrate a company’s data just prior to encrypting it. The ransomware group, also known as Sodinokib, has posted screenshots of some of the stolen data as proof of their raid. The group has been stealing email from the targeted victims by exploiting the discussed zero-day flaws.

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Ransomware Authentication Financial Services Military 57

The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

The platform vendors want to communicate that while they will provide the tools, such as security groups and IAM tools, the subscriber is responsible for implementing them correctly. Here are excerpts of our discussion, edited for clarity and length: LW: Can you frame how threat actors’ view the current trajectory of cloud migration?

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Cloud Ransomware Data breaches GDPR 127

IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Maitland, FL, dentist says five months of patient records encrypted by ransomware (unknown). Unprotected server at Brazilian financial services provider exposes customer data (unknown). National Australia Bank notifying customers after data service companies misuse personal data (13,000).

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Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Government 111

Data Matters

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On November 18, 2021, a group of federal bank regulators announced a final rule requiring banks to notify their primary federal regulator of any “significant computer-security incidents.” Further, bank service providers are now required to promptly notify all affected banks whenever a cybersecurity disruption lasts for four or more hours.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. Encrypting Critical Data Assets. Directors should develop at least a high-level familiarity with how data is secured ( e.g. , encryption of critical company data, both while at rest and in motion). Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. Aligning cyber risk with corporate strategy.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

19, 2022, President Biden signed the National Security Memorandum, which implemented requirements from EO 14028 by setting out specific cyber requirements for government agencies and contractors, such as multifactor authentication, encryption, cloud technologies, and endpoint detection services. 19, 2022). jurisdictions. 3, 2018).

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

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