Insider Threat: Hackers Paying Company Insiders to Bypass Security

A new report from Check Point Research reveals a growing trend of cyber criminals recruiting employees at banks, telecoms, and tech giants. Learn how hackers use the darknet and Telegram to offer payouts up to $15,000 for internal access to companies like Apple, Coinbase, and the Federal Reserve...

A week in security (June 24 – June 30)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: TEMU sued for being "dangerous malware" by Arkansas Attorney General Driving licences and other official documents leaked by authentication service used by Uber, TikTok, X, and more "Poseidon" Mac stealer distributed via Google ads Federal Reserve "breached" data m...

[updated] Federal Reserve “breached” data may actually belong to Evolve Bank

A shockwave went through the financial world when ransomware group LockBit claimed to have breached the US Federal Reserve, the central banking system of the United States. On LockBits dark web leak site, the group threatened to release over 30 TB of banking information containing Americans banki...

LockBit Ransomware Claims 33 TB of US Federal Reserve Data for Ransom

LockBit ransomware claims to hold 33 TB of data from the US Federal Reserve for ransom. Hackread.com investigates, reaching out to CISA for comments on the breach and ongoing negotiations. Stay updated!...

SWIFT Hack: Bangladesh Bank Recovers $15 Million from a Philippines Casino

Part of the $81 Million stolen from Bangladesh bank's New York Federal Reserve account earlier this year in the wake of the major malware attack on the SWIFT interbank transfer network has been tracked down to a casino in the Philippines. SWIFT, or Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunicatio...

Report: Federal Reserve Target of Constant Hack Attacks

Forced to come clean on breaches against the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Fed on Wednesday revealed the agency that drives financial markets around the world has been breached as many as 50 times in the past five years. As part of a Freedom of Information Act request by the Reuters news agency, the...

Here's How Hackers Stole $80 Million from Bangladesh Bank

The recent cyber attack on Bangladesh's central bank that let hackers stole over $80 Million from the institutes' Federal Reserve bank account was reportedly caused due to the Malware installed on the Bank's computer systems. Few days ago, reports emerged of a group of unknown hackers that broke...

How a Typo Stopped Hackers from Stealing $1 Billion from Bank

Typos are really embarrassing, but this time it saved the Bangladesh Central Bank and the New York Federal Reserve by preventing a nearly $1 Billion £700 Million heist. Last month, some unknown hackers broke into Bangladesh's central bank, obtained credentials needed for payment transfers and the...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID20028: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on December 15, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 42676 First Published: 2015 December 15 21:34 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID20028 may contain the following files: Name |...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID19665: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on November 30, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 42284 First Published: 2015 November 25 19:36 GMT Last Updated: 2015 November 30 14:13 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID1966...

St. Louis Federal Reserve Falls Victim to DNS Hijack

The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank confirmed this week that it fell victim to a DNS hijack last month. The attack may have redirected users to bogus webpages and for a period of time exposed customers to phishing, malware and other attacks that potentially could have duped users into giving away...

Federal Reserve Admits It was Briefly Hacked During Super Bowl

Two days after the group Anonymous boasted it had broken into a government Web site and had the data dump to prove it, the U.S. Federal Reserve admitted it was hacked. “The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor...

House Hearing to Address Capital Market Threats

The House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a hearing tomorrow in which they will explore the various cyber threats targeting capital markets and government sponsored enterprises. Entitled “Cyber Threats to Capital Markets and Corporate Accounts,” the hearing in front of the Committee on...

Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing Source Code From Federal Reserve

A 33 year-old Chinese man pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal Court to stealing proprietary source code used by the U.S. Federal Reserve to help track billions of dollars in government transfers that occur daily, according to a report by Reuters. Bo a.k.a. “Bryan” Zhang was employed as a contract work...