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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

15, 2024 – Harter Secrest & Emery LLP , a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coach ® , a designation only extended to law firms that demonstrate competency and sophistication in data breach response. Greene Led by partner F.

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Data Matters

MAY 4, 2022

Mr. Lashway and Mr. Woods join Sidley from Baker McKenzie where they started and led the global cybersecurity practice group for over 10 years. He has significant experience in addressing election security and misinformation related issues, and was deeply involved in the investigations into the 2016 and 2020 elections targeting various U.S.

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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. Nissan already notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

Related: A firewall for microservices DevSecOps arose to insert security checks and balances into DevOps, aiming to do so without unduly degrading speed and agility. If you’re thinking that speed and security are like oil and water, you’re right. For a full drill down on our discussion, please give the accompanying podcast a listen.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The LockBit ransomware attack on the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China demonstrates the weakness of global financial system to cyberattacks. Treasury trading operations at an American subsidiary of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. The ransomware breach that crippled U.S. trillion under management.

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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

JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. First American Financial Corp.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

Whether it’s addressing customer demands for seamless digital experiences or helping clients navigate complex industry regulations, IBM Cloud is committed to helping clients drive innovation today while preparing them for tomorrow.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Publication of Secure Payment Confirmation as a Candidate Recommendation indicates that the feature set is stable and has received wide review.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Society’s dependence on internet-based technologies means security professionals must defend against cyberattacks as well as more traditional threats, such as robbers or disgruntled employees. However, cybercriminals target some industries at disproportionally high rates. Financial Services. Health Care.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. This largely follows the trend in the industry of moving transactions primarily to a more web-focused infrastructure.

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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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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. 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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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On 14 September, Mulkay discovered that the compromised files contained personal information, including “name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, driver’s license number or state ID, medical treatment information, and health insurance information”. Some patients also had their Social Security numbers exposed.”

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint advisory that provides technical details about the gang’s operations, including tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with Cuba ransomware. ” reads the report.

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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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The Security Ledger

MARCH 26, 2021

In this week’s Security Ledger Podcast, sponsored by Trusted Computing Group, we’re talking about securing the hardware supply chain. We’re joined by Michael Mattioli, a Vice President at Goldman Sachs who heads up that organization’s hardware supply chain security program. Read the whole entry. »

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 12, 2023

As a leading financial group in Spain, CaixaBank has long been an innovator by taking a technology-first approach by placing innovation, digital transformation, customer experience and sustainable banking at the forefront of its strategy. CaixaBank is continuing its initiative to increase cloud absorption.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC’s”) Form 8-K cybersecurity reporting rules under new Item 1.05, this blog post provides a high-level summary of the filings made to date. It is interesting, but perhaps coincidental, that the filings seem limited to two broad industry groups: technology and financial services.

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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 3: personal financial information.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Source New Telecoms USA Yes 6,158 Nabholz Construction Company Employee Welfare Health Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 5,326 Dawson James Securities, Inc. North Hill Home Health Care, Inc.,

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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 has offices in more than 42 countries and more than 60,000 employees, it has clients in multiple industries. ” reads the letter.

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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. Helpmego.to

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

Cyber security and intelligence experts believe that attacks aimed at the cryptocurrency industry will continue to increase next year. Data published by the National Intelligence Service agency confirms a report published by South Korean media outlet Chosun early this year that revealed North Korean threat actors have stolen around $1.7

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. Healthcare and public health, financial services, and IT organizations are frequent targets, although businesses of all sizes can fall victim to these schemes.

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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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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.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2021

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. This group is likely large, well-funded and dedicated.”.

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Data Matters

APRIL 11, 2022

The Cyber Security Law (2017) (the CSL ) prohibits operators of critical information infrastructures ( CIIs ) from transferring their “important data” and personal information outside of China. Network Data Security Regulation. The concept of “important data” is a cornerstone of China’s data regulatory regime.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

A criminal group called Maze has claimed responsibility.” Once you’ve registered, you should be aware that CIFAS members will do extra checks to see when anyone, including you, applies for a financial service, such as a loan, using your address.” ” reads the data breach notification published by the company.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2024

Industry limitations The DPF is not available across all industries: only those regulated at a federal level under the FTC or DOT may self-certify. Groups, such as Max Schrems’ NOYB , have expressed their concerns, especially that “the fundamental problem with FISA 702 was not addressed”.

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Collibra

JULY 14, 2023

The AWS Competency Program’s goal is to give AWS customers confidence that the AWS Partner has demonstrated technical expertise and a proven track record in specialty areas across various industries, use cases and workloads. According to research by CapGemini Research Group , governments believe that they could realize a 9.5%

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

. “This activity was typically only within reach of intelligence agencies or surveillance contractors, but now Motherboard has confirmed that this capability is much more widely available in the hands of financially-driven cybercriminal groups, who are using it to empty bank accounts. Security Affairs – SS7 protocol, Metro Bank).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Once payments are collected from the victims, they make previously created resources vanish and set up the next new campaign – this is why investigators named the group “Digital Smoke” According to the latest report by FTC released last week called “The Top Scams of 2022” people reported losing $8.8 and the U.K

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2020

DevSecOps proponents are pushing for security-by-design practices to get woven into the highly agile DevOps engineering culture. San Jose-based application security vendor, Virsec , is seeking to tilt the balance a bit more to the side of good. Total vulnerabilities reported in the NVD dropped a bit in 2019, down to 12,174 total flaws.

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