SWIFT Confirms Banks Still Being Targeted, Announces Mitigation Tool

SWIFT’s chief information security officer said Wednesday that the cooperative is still seeing cases where its customers’ environments have been compromised. “The threat is persistent, adaptive and sophisticated – and it is here to stay,” Alain Desausoi, the cooperative’s CISO said, adding...

RIPPER ATM Malware and the 12 Million Baht Jackpot

On Aug. 23, 2016, FireEye detected a potentially new ATM malware sample that used some interesting techniques not seen before. To add more fuel to an existing fire, the sample was uploaded to VirusTotal from an IP address in Thailand a couple of minutes before the Bangkok Post newspaper reported...

GozNym Banking Trojan Targeting German Banks

GozNym’s Euro trip rolls on. Fresh from targeting banks in Poland, the banking Trojan has reportedly begun taking aim at banks in Germany. For many, August marks the long, dog days of summer but developers behind GozNym appear to be working hard. According to numbers published by IBM’s X-Force te...

NUUO NVRmini2 / NVRsolo / Crystal Devices / Netgear ReadyNAS Surveillance Application - Multiple Vul

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits Multiple vulnerabilities in NUUO NVRmini2 / NVRsolo / Crystal devices and NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance application Discovered by Pedro Ribeiro email protected, Agile Information Security http://www.agileinfosec.co.uk/...

LizardStresser IoT Botnets Part of 400Gbps DDoS Attacks

LizardStresser, a distributed denial of service botnet, has found new life leveraging hundreds of internet-based webcams in attacks against Brazilian-based banks, government agencies as well as a handful of U.S.-based gaming companies. Researchers at the Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response...

Russia arrests 50 hackers who stole $25 million from Banks

Russian authorities have arrested a gang of 50 hackers suspected of stealing more than 1.7 Billion Rubles over US$25 Million from banks and other financial institutions in the country since 2011. The same criminal gang had tried to steal a further 2.273 Billion Roubles by issuing false payment...

The 7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By the FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has lengthened its Most Wanted List by adding seven Iranian hackers who are accused of attacking a range of US banks and a New York dam. On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice DoJ charged seven Iranian hackers with a slew of computer hacking...

Nasdaq to Use Bitcoin-style Blockchain to Record Shareholder Votes

The Nasdaq stock exchange and the Republic of Estonia have announced the use of Blockchain-based technology to allow shareholders of companies to e-vote in shareholder meetings even when they're abroad, according to Nasdaq's press release. Global stock market giant is developing an electronic...

URLZone Back and Targeting Japanese Banks

After a good two to three years of relative silence, the gang behind the banking Trojan URLZone has become more active over the past few months and taken aim at banks across Europe and beginning last month, Japan. Attackers have begun sending spam emails with poisoned attachments to customers at ...

URLZone Zones in on Japan

Recently we’ve seen an interesting trend from several crimeware families that were mainly active in the European region, and have now expanded their activity to Japan. Rovnix is one such family, as recently reported by IBM X-Force. At the same time, we’ve seen another spam campaign break out in...

Spyware Asacub Evolves to Mobile Banking Malware

Asacub, once thought of as spyware, appears to have completed its transition into mobile banking malware, according to research published this week. When the Android malware surfaced in June 2015, researchers with Kaspersky Lab assumed it was spyware. It more or less fit the part; Asacub siphoned...

Dridex Adopting Dyre Tactics, Targeting U.K. Banks

Attackers behind the Dridex Trojan have narrowed their sights on banks based in the United Kingdom frequented by high-value business accounts, researchers claim. When a new version of the Trojan was released two weeks ago, it was promptly followed by a series of infection campaigns that focused o...

banks-india.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://banks-india.com/axis-bank-branches.php?City=--!%3E%22%3E%3C/script%20%3E%3Ciframe/onload=alert%28/XSSPOSED/%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 26.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa...

Experts Say Bitcoin Extortionist Copycats on the Rise

Experts believe that the success tied to a recent spate of DDoS-for-hire groups may be because many are copycat collectives operating with a shorter lifespan. Researchers with Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based firm that tracks real time threat intelligence, said Monday that they’ve noticed a...

Tinba Variant Spotted Targeting Russian, Japanese Banks

Cybercriminals behind the Tinba banking Trojan have been homing in on some of the larger banks in Russia and Japan, experts claim. According to researchers with Dell SecureWorks, who looked at an instance of the malware last month, configuration files in one variant are targeting one of the...

ArabLab Bot ID SSL Certificate

An SSL certificate containing the ArabLab Bot ID has been found. This bot has been used in the past for targeting banks, and other campaigns whose goal is access to money...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2008-0612)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Chip Cards Finally Come to America – But What Does it Mean for Merchants and Consumers?

Like it or not, today the U.S. finally adopts EMV technology. While the implementation by most major retailers and large U.S. banks is expected to be delayed, the "chip and PIN" card types are coming to America to stay. The real debate is, will EMV adoption do anything for card data security?...

World's 9 Biggest Banks to adopt Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology

The Existing Infrastructure used by Financial institutions like Banks is Archaic, Slow, and Costly, with hardly any innovation in the past three decades. Nine of the World’s renowned Banks, including JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Scotland, Goldman Sachs and Barclays, are collaborating with New York-bas...

change fontset 'icons' to html entities to improve security compliance

It seems that the icons in Confluence are currently rendered using fontset. This can be an issue for organization especially banks that have strict security constraint fontset cannot be downloaded as a result this will not render on customer instance. I would recommend that we change the current...