Warning: New Massive Malicious Campaigns Targeting Top Indian Banks' Customers

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of "massive phishing campaigns" that distribute five different malware targeting banking users in India. "The bank customers targeted include account subscribers of seven banks, including some of the most well-known banks located in the country and potentiall...

Threat actor selling 158,000 Canadian, US credit card data

By Habiba Rashid The threat actor also claims to sell full information of credit card holders which can be a massive privacy threat to unsuspecting banking customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Threat actor selling 158,000 Canadian, US credit card data...

CryptoLocker Spam Campaign Targets Millions in UK

Tens of millions of online banking customers in the U.K. are the targets of a dangerous spam campaign enticing users to open an attachment containing the CryptoLocker ransomware. The U.K.’s National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit posted an advisory late last week warning people to be...

Fake Google Play Accounts Peddling Banking Malware

On the one year anniversary of Google Play comes news that a new botkit is making the rounds that leverages actual verified accounts from that marketplace to trick users into downloading phony banking applications. Brian Krebs, who goes into further detail about the malware in a post on his blog...

Operation High Roller Now Targets Europe's SEPA Network and Large US Bank

The criminals behind Operation High Roller, a complex wire-fraud scheme that has scammed high-end banking customers out of millions, have added a new dimension of automation to their attacks and expanded their efforts beyond Europe and have targeted a major U.S. bank. Researchers at McAfee provid...

Fake Chat Screen Malware Hijacks Banking Customers

A new attack against online banking customers uses a malware platform to trick its victims into verifying bogus transactions. The attack, first described by Trusteer CTO Amit Klein, waits for an unsuspecting business banking customer to log online before telling them that “security checks” need t...

New Security Standards for Mobile Payments Coming

From SC Magazine Angela Moscaritolo A financial services technology group is developing standards for making secure mobile payment transactions. The goal of the project, an effort of the Financial Services Technology Consortium FSTC, is to develop standards and processes so that banking customers...