eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 These new attacks affect everything from private citizens and businesses to government systems; healthcare organizations; public services; and food, water, and fuel supply chains. Ransomware. Ransomware is the fastest-growing trend. Mobile attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

However, a relentless barrage of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and sophisticated cyber threats steadily erodes this trust. Payment Services Directive (PSD3) PSD3 is an updated version of PSD2 and provides rules on the efficiency and security of digital payments and financial services in the EU.

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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

Financial services are the main target for cybercriminals, so the threat for the organizations and their customers is severe. The leak also affected Bloom Money and Admiral Money – two financial companies based in the UK, and Reed, which is the UK’s top recruitment agency. env) belonging to idkit.com, owned by OCR Labs.

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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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

million and grown to 42 employees, winning customers in leading media firms, financial services companies and government agencies in the Nordics. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW I’ll keep watching and reporting. Talk more soon.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2021

For example, financial services firms may be worried about employees breaching insider trading laws. Additionally, the Cloud service provider itself may be vulnerable to attacks – as we saw recently with the ransomware attack on Kaseya. Looking for more advice?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent refers to this as “data breach emulation,’’ something David DeSanto, Spirent’s threat research director, told me is designed to give companyies a great advantage; it makes it possible to see precisely how the latest ransomware or crypto mining malware would impact a specific network, with all of its quirky complexity.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

"When employees understand how their day-to-day behaviors — no matter how small — can expose sensitive data, they're less likely to introduce risk in the first place," Watson writes. The reports show that ransomware incidents have increased from 17% to 19%, often spread through phishing emails and malware.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, ISC focuses not only on technical information about threats but also on providing procedural guidance for how to address these threats. Pricing The Internet Storm Center is a free service. Features Pulls information from sensors across 500,000 IP addresses and more than 50 countries.

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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. How to best protect against service provider incidents?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Here is how the NSA-developed cyber monster works, and how you should defend against it. EternalBlue is a Windows exploit created by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and used in the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack. These data packets can contain malware such as a trojan, ransomware, or similar dangerous program.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware? LW: What do ransomware attack pattern across the globe look like today?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Likewise, if one storage location goes off line for any reason, say a ransomware attack or an earthquake, the full data set can be recovered from the other locations. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. One can only hope. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2019

Lucy’s’s software allows companies to easily set-up customizable mock attacks to test employees’ readiness to avoid phishing, ransomware and other attacks with a social engineering component. Customers in financial services, energy, government, healthcare and manufacturing sectors are using its testing and training modules.

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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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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In recent years, ransomware has gotten the lion’s share of attention from the highest levels of the tech and security industries as well as the federal government, including the Biden Administration. million requests per second against a target in the financial services industry. DDoS an Ongoing Threat. million DDoS attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

As threats mount from ransomware gangs , Russian-backed hacker groups , and other nation-sponsored attackers and as the growth in remote work makes security management increasingly complicated, many companies are finding it makes sense to turn to a managed security service provider (MSSP) for help with handling an extremely complex threat landscape.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

You know you're seeing guy breaches in the news, aside from ransomware which you know is happening in a different way, but when you see your data breaches pure data exfiltrated out and you're seeing it happen on the API layer just simply because the security is not harder. We seem to know how to prevent this from happening.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

You know you're seeing guy breaches in the news, aside from ransomware which you know is happening in a different way, but when you see your data breaches pure data exfiltrated out and you're seeing it happen on the API layer just simply because the security is not harder. We seem to know how to prevent this from happening.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

And DDoS attackers have adopted a tactic from ransomware groups and are seeking payment from victims and potential victims. Meanwhile, the 2021 State of the Data Center Industry research report placed DDoS behind ransomware as the threats that most worry the enterprise. 8 Top DDoS Protection Services. Key Differentiators.

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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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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

The NACD Handbook principles provide directors with a high-level understanding of how to think about cyber issues from the perspective of corporate strategy. 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).

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Data Matters

APRIL 21, 2020

Foreign financial institutions risk secondary sanctions for engaging in the same. As a result, North Korea has increasingly used cybercrime, such as ransomware attacks, to raise funds to support its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Read more: Application Security is Key to Stopping Ransomware, Vendor Says. Currently ideal for industries like financial services managing sensitive data, Cape Privacy’s Snowflake is an innovative multi-party computation (MPC) platform that prevents single points of failure and ensures compliance. Cape Privacy.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

” Lookout data indicates that about 15 percent of financial services employees encountered a mobile phishing attempt each quarter in 2020. meat industry was shut down in an apparent Russia-connected ransomware attack on JBS, maker of the Swift brand. . … Attacks are more difficult to spot on mobile. Ahead of a U.S.-Russian

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 16, 2022

In June 2021, the House Committee on Financial Services also organized a Digital Assets Working Group. This section of the Executive Order focuses on the role digital assets play in cybercrime, ransomware activity, money laundering, financing of terrorism, fraud and theft schemes, and corruption. explore a U.S. Conclusion.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

In the case of ransomware. Duff: Yeah, so I mean pentesting by definition has a little bit of a difference, right, pen tests are more usually centered around where, how to exploit vulnerabilities to get in. Vamosi: these tactics track against the behaviors we've seen from adversaries.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2021

In the case of ransomware. Duff: Yeah, so I mean pentesting by definition has a little bit of a difference, right, pen tests are more usually centered around where, how to exploit vulnerabilities to get in. Vamosi: these tactics track against the behaviors we've seen from adversaries.

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