banking
Google’s Health Record Storage Controversy, US Border Search Ruling, Zelle Scams
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 95 for November 18th 2019: Google’s access to the ...
Cyber Attacks Hit the City of Johannesburg and South African Banks
Hackers attacked several key South African organizations last week, impacting everything from workers’ paychecks to 112 emergency calls “Not all treasure’s silver and gold, mate.” Jack Sparrow Johannesburg may be... The post ...
A Closer Look at the Emotet Banking Trojan
Banking trojans can be one of the most financially damaging pieces of malware to infect computers. Banking trojans are typically seen as any piece of malicious software designed to gain access to ...
Understanding Consumer Sentiments About Financial Cybersecurity
I’ve long maintained that security can and should be leveraged as a competitive advantage, regardless of industry. But I’d like to expound upon this mantra: it holds particularly true for the financial ...
What Do Banks and Cybersecurity Have in Common? Everything.
New cyber-security threats require new solutions. New solutions require a project to implement them. The problems and solutions seem infinite while budgets remain bounded. Therefore, the challenge becomes how to identify the ...
Malspam Campaign Targeting Russian Speakers with Redaman Malware
An ongoing malicious spam campaign is currently targeting Russian-speaking users with samples of the Redaman banking malware. Since at least September 2018, the malspam campaign has been sending out malicious spam emails ...
Now or Never: Financial Services and the Cloud
I will get straight to the point: The time is right for the financial services (FS) industry to leverage the power of the cloud. It dovetails quite nicely with retail banking’s competitive ...
Banks Attacked through Malicious Hardware Connected to the Local Network
Kaspersky is reporting on a series of bank hacks -- called DarkVishnya -- perpetrated through malicious hardware being surreptitiously installed into the target network: In 2017-2018, Kaspersky Lab specialists were invited to ...
DanaBot Observed in Large Campaign Targeting U.S. Organizations
Researchers observed the distribution of the DanaBot banking trojan in a large attack campaign targeting U.S. organizations. On 26 September, Proofpoint detected a campaign consisting of hundreds of thousands of emails intended ...
Hackers steal $13.5 million from Indian bank in global attack
Hackers planted malware on an automated teller machine (ATM) server belonging to an Indian bank as part of a criminal scheme which saw the theft of nearly 944 million rupees (US $13.5 ...
