Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. Members of the Trickbot Group publicly gloated over the ease of targeting the medical facilities and the speed with which the ransoms were paid to the group.”

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 16, 2021

TA505 APT Group delivers phishing email containing malicious links Researchers at Morphisec Labs have published fresh details about a new MirrorBlast campaign that they say is run by a Russia-based threat group TA505, targeting financial services organizations.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 1, 2020

Top Victims Include Financial Services and Law Firms, Group-IB Warns A sophisticated, highly targeted phishing campaign has hit high-level executives at more than 150 businesses, stealing confidential documents and contact lists, says security firm Group-IB.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 10, 2023

OTC Markets CISO on Ransomware, Regulations Affecting the Financial Services Space OTC Markets Group in recent years has gone from having almost sector-specific cybersecurity regulations to highly robust ones, said CISO Vlad Brodsky.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In 2019, TSYS was acquired by financial services firm Global Payments Inc. Conti is one of several cybercriminal groups that maintains a blog which publishes data stolen from victims in a bid to force the negotiation of ransom payments. NYSE:GPN ].

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

CyberEdBoard Executive Member, Charmaine Valmonte, guest speaks at ISMG Virtual Cybersecurity Summit Asia: Financial Services Volmonte is VP, IT security and IT infrastructure, Aboitiz Group of Companies. She has more than 30 years of experience in the U.S. military and the private sector.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

Organizations in the financial services, healthcare and other regulated sectors must place an even greater focus on managing risk—not only to meet compliance requirements, but also to maintain customer confidence and trust. Read to learn more about cloud adoption within financial services?

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Microsoft and security firms ESET, Black Lotus Labs, and Symantec collaborated with the financial services industry to cut off the ransomware operation's C2 infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten, also known as Fox Kitten or Parisite, is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Resecurity has uncovered a meaningful link between three major ransomware groups, BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware. 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.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Securing sensitive data in an evolving landscape Advancements like those in AI and quantum computing can pose new challenges to customers, especially those in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and more.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

. “As of January 2022, the FBI has identified at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including entities in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors,” reads the FBI’s flash alert.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Akira ransomware group announced it had breached the network of Nissan Australia, the Australian branch of the car maker giant. ” reads the message published by the group on its data leak site. Like other ransomware gangs, the group has developed a Linux encryptor to target VMware ESXi servers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

” The TA505 group was first spotted by Proofpoint back 2017, it has been active at least since 2015 and targets organizations in financial and retail industries. In November experts observed several campaigns carried out by the TA505 group, in three of them the threat actors delivered the ServHelper malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, the FBI published two flash alert to warn of the operation of the group. The Ragnar Locker group focuses on extortion, in some cases it did not deploy ransomware, instead it only stole the victim’s data threatening to leak it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

on November 8 has laid bare the vulnerability of the global financial system to cyberattacks. LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack against ICBC, the largest lender in the world by assets, with $5.7 LockBit specifically targeted ICBC Financial Services (ICBC FS), a wholly owned U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Treasury market and impacted some fixed income and equities transactions “The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association first told members on Wednesday that ICBC Financial Services had been hit by ransomware software, which paralyses computer systems unless a payment is made, several people familiar with the discussions said.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

It is not clear who is behind the DDoS attack, but the media speculate that it was launched by pro-Russian hacktivists in response to the German financial and military support to Ukraine. The BaFin website was included in January in a list of targets published by the pro-Russia group Killnet on its Telegram channel.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The company that handled that process for MyPayrollHR is a California firm called Cachet Financial Services. Dan L’Abbe , CEO of the San Francisco-based consultancy Granite Solutions Groupe , said the mix-up has been massively disruptive for his 250 employees. “It varies widely,” L’Abbe said.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Key trends: 1️ Increased Ransomware Activity Targeting Public Companies Ransomware groups are poised to intensify their focus on publicly-traded organizations. Recent U.S. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, 2024 Cyber Threat Landscape Forecast)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm espionage group resurfaced targeting a U.S.-based This is the first time that Symantec researchers have observed the Budworm group targeting a U.S-based The group also targeted a hospital in South East Asia. The China-linked APT27 group has been active since 2010, it targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. The company did not share details about the attack or its scope, but a few weeks later the Akira ransomware group claimed to have stolen 100 GB of information from the company.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

Chinese APT group Emissary Panda has been targeting government organizations in two different countries in the Middle East. The Emissary Panda APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. How can banks, credit unions, and financial advisors keep up with demanding regulations while battling restricted budgets and higher employee turnover? Don’t wait.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. com — which was created to phish U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized. pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 The operation led to the arrest of two members of the ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine and the seizure of hundreds of crypto wallets used by the group.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

” According to the Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA), a trade group in Washington, D.C. According to Buckley LLP , a financial services law firm based in Washington, D.C., As this is an ongoing criminal investigation, we can make no additional comment at this time.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2022

The BfV German domestic intelligence services warn of ongoing attacks carried out by the China-linked APT27 cyberespionage group. The Bun­des­amt für Ver­fas­sungs­schutz (BfV) federal domestic intelligence agency warns of ongoing attacks coordinated by the China-linked APT27 group. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

. “Pacific City Bank provides outstanding banking and financial services for businesses and consumers. ” Below one of the images shared by the group: The ransomware gang published a ZIP archive named proof that contains a series of documents allegedly stolen from the bank.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

In 2019 the Web Payments Working Group began work on Secure Payment Confirmation to help fulfill Strong Customer Authentication requirements with low checkout friction. The Web Payments Working Group anticipates more experimental data will be available by September 2023. Secure Payment Confirmation is not just for card payments.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

. “That statement demonstrated that First American’s senior management was not properly informed of the prior report of a vulnerability and a failure to remediate the problem,” wrote Michael Volkov , a 30-year federal prosecutor who now runs The Volkov Law Group in Washington, D.C. “That’s a high-risk vulnerability.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 23, 2020

Reputationmanagementfor.com bills itself as an online service for “fighting negative and incorrect content on the internet,” which is especially interesting for reasons that should become clearer in a few paragraphs. THE COBRA/APPCO GROUP. employed a number of people involved in the SEO business.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

Recently Cyber researchers for Cyble investigated an attack suffered by on May 30, 2021, by Nucleus Software, an India-based IT company in the Banking and Financial Services sector. Nucleus Software declared that it does not store customers’ financial data. ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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