Fraudsters compromised debit card numbers and associated PINs, and possibly names and addresses, of an undisclosed number of Bank of the West customers. Unknown thieves installed skimmers in a "small number of ATMs," the bank's COO, Karl Werwath, tells ISMG.
Effective security and risk programs require not just domain mastery but making security accessible to boards of directors and senior officers, says Karin Höne, the group chief information security and risk officer of South Africa-based multinational Barloworld.
The accelerated shift to digital banking has led to a surge in online fraud of all types. Recent studies have shown that 33% of U.S banks’ fraud costs in 2021 came from online banking – a 26% increase from 2020. The increased complexity, volume, and speed of today’s online transactions mean that organizations...
A publicly traded issuer of home mortgages is notifying 1.5 million consumers of a December cyber incident on its network that leaked PII, including customers' Social Security numbers. Flagstar Bank discovered the breach on June 2 and there has been no evidence of data misuse so far.
Insurance claims being filed by ransomware victims are growing as criminals continue to hit businesses with crypto-locking malware. To avoid these claims, organizations can take a number of proven steps to better protect themselves, says Payal Chakravarty of Coalition.
Cybersecurity continues to make headlines, prompting governmental agencies and regulators to increase chatter while demanding more action from institutions. As many question the return on investment and ask if cybersecurity will consume an ever-increasing portion of their operating budget, how to best approach the...
Police in Nigeria this week arrested a 37-year-old man who's been charged with masterminding "a criminal syndicate tied to massive business email compromise and phishing campaigns," Interpol says. But with known BEC losses last year exceeding $2.4 billion, will the arrest have a noticeable impact?
Since at least the middle of last year, online attackers have been increasingly targeting the financial services sector.
So warns John Fokker, principal engineer and head of cyber investigations for the Advanced Threat Research group at cybersecurity firm Trellix. He says Trellix's latest threat assessment found a...
Financial services firms lose an average of $18.5 million per year through malicious activity like leaked credentials, payment fraud, money laundering, fake account registration, loyalty abuse, and more. Fraud prevention depends on effective intelligence gathering, and few firms have the tools or personnel to...
Never have global financial institutions
faced such adversaries. The cybercriminal gangs now wield tools that
used to be the province of nation-states, and the nation-states now
engage in activities that once were owned by cybercrime. Scams
and schemes including account
takeover, denial of service and ransomware...
Advanced cyberattacks represent a credible threat to the network, data, users and devices of financial institutions of all sizes. Threats range widely in scope, including broad-based attacks on the network itself, focused attacks on individual accounts or employees and the exploitation of vulnerabilities in endpoint...
The Financial Services industry have seen a 1000%+ increase in the amount of ransomware attacks hitting their organizations. It is also one of the most targeted verticals out there. We know why this is a favored target; because that’s where the money is. The question to be answered is identifying the attack vector...
From the billions pumped into unemployment and other economic relief programs during the pandemic to competitive marketing campaigns designed to increase customer acquisition, fraudsters have never had a better incentive to commit new account fraud. This session will highlight the problems financial institutions are...
VMware's Tom Kellermann is out with Modern Bank Heists 5.0, his latest look at the attackers and attacks targeting financial services. Subtitled "The Escalation," this report looks at the increase in destructive attacks, ransomware and hits on cryptocurrency exchanges. Kellermann shares insights.
Digital transformation across the financial services industry has accelerated public cloud adoption. As workloads leave the confines of their private data centers, financial institutions (FIs) are now faced with sub-optimal access to the applications and data hosted in the cloud, where security often takes the...
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