Investment banking giant Morgan Stanley is the latest company to report a data breach tied to zero-day attacks on Accellion's legacy File Transfer Appliance - yet another indicator of the sustained impact of supply chain attacks.
Mercedes-Benz USA says one of its vendors exposed 1.6 million records that pertained to its customers and interested buyers. The incident, which involved an unnamed vendor and a cloud storage platform, is similar to one recently disclosed by Volkswagen.
This year, attackers are permeating the everyday lives of consumers, citizens, and lawmakers everywhere. The response to recent ransomware attacks on companies is serving as a reminder that cybersecurity, at its core, is a matter of building and maintaining trust.
Meanwhile, organizations and security professionals...
Cryptojacking group TeamTNT is leveraging compromised Amazon Web Services credentials to attack its cloud environments through the platform’s API, according to researchers from Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks.
Some 26 million passwords were exposed in a 1.2 terabyte batch of data found by NordLocker, a security company. It's workaday botnet data, but it highlights a hostile malware landscape, particularly for people still inclined to download pirated software.
The Identity Theft Resource Center, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization established to support victims of identity crime, has published new research that shows nearly 30% of people who contact the ITRC are victims of more than one identity crime.
It is particularly challenging for financial institutions to catch authorized push payment fraud. But behavioral metrics can play a big role in detecting these incidents, says Steve Ledford of The Clearing House.
A year ago, Chris Pierson and BlackCloak studied executives at top global pharma companies to learn the extent of password-based vulnerabilities. The findings weren't reassuring. Pierson revisited the study this year with a select few entities to see if the needle has moved in a more secure direction.
How easy is it for a consumer to open a bank account in the United States? In some cases, not easy at all. U.S. banks are often making the online customer onboarding process unnecessarily complicated. Key opportunities to improve security and the user experience are being missed.
iProov researchers created online...
FBI agent Elvis Chan dedicated four years to election security, and he doesn’t hesitate to say: The 2020 presidential election was "the most secure election of my career." He explains why, and what lessons learned we can apply to future elections.
A perfect storm is brewing for fraudsters. On one hand, the economic turmoil, triggered by the pandemic is increasing and accelerating insurance fraud. On the other, the insurance industry is moving many of its business processes online – which make the criminals happy. David Hartley of SAS Institute outlines how to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an uptick in financial crimes, a sudden rise in digital banking activities and resources working from home. As a result, the AML landscape has become more challenging for Financial Institutions and other AML regulated entities.
How has the AML regulatory climate shifted most...
Now that the Federal Reserve has issued a definition for synthetic ID fraud, fraud-fighting efforts likely will improve because it will be easier to identify red flags, some security experts say.
Preventing deepfake fraud while addressing customer digital onboarding ease-of-use concerns is a balancing act. Sanjay Gupta of Mitek discusses the challenge of juggling security and the user experience in digital banking.
A security researcher found more than 500 million Facebook records being offered for free on the darknet, exposing basic user information, including any phone numbers associated with the accounts. Facebook says this is “old data” previously reported as exposed.
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