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The major outage began around Monday evening but has continued well into today with Chase reporting some customers facing degraded performance while others seeing improvement. Chase UK's customers with a mobile-based current account have been experiencing an ongoing outage and degraded performance with the bank's app, making it difficult for them to access their accounts and funds.

TD Bank has disclosed a data breach affecting an undisclosed number of customers whose personal information was stolen by a former employee and used to conduct financial fraud.TD Bank is one of the largest banks in the United States by deposits, operating 1,220 branches and employing over 26,000 people.

A new phishing as a service platform named 'Robin Banks' has been launched, offering ready-made phishing kits targeting the customers of well-known banks and online services. According to a report by IronNet, whose analysts discovered the new phishing platform, Robin Banks is already being deployed in large-scale campaigns that started in mid-June, targeting victims via SMS and email.

The Bank of the West is warning customers that their debit card numbers and PINs have been stolen by skimmers installed on several of the bank's ATMs. The financial institute, which operates over 600 branches in the United States, first detected a wave of suspicious withdrawal attempts in November 2021 and coordinated with law enforcement to conduct an in-depth investigation. "The ATM skimming device that was installed interfered with the normal debit card transaction and allowed the theft of your card number, the PIN number associated with your card, and possibly your name and address," explains the bank's notice to impacted customers.

A new Android banking malware named Revive has been discovered that impersonates a 2FA application required to log into BBVA bank accounts in Spain. The new banking trojan follows a more focused approach targeting the BBVA bank instead of attempting to compromise customers of multiple financial institutes.

A US bank has said at least the names and social security numbers of more than 1.5 million of its customers were stolen from its computers in December. In a statement to the office of Maine's Attorney General this month, Flagstar Bank said it was compromised between December and April 2021.

Flagstar Bank is notifying 1.5 million customers of a data breach where hackers accessed personal data during a December cyberattack. According to data breach notifications sent to exposed customers, Flagstar experienced a security incident in December 2021 when intruders breached the bank's corporate network.

RuneScape is a free online MMORPG game first released two decades ago but continues to be popular in the gaming community and enjoyed by millions of players. The latest phishing campaign, spotted by Malwarebytes, attempts to target players of both the Old School and the standard editions via a fake email change notice.

The Spanish police have announced the arrest of 13 people and the launch of investigations on another seven for their participation in a phishing ring that stole online bank credentials. The threat actors used phishing lures to trick their victims into believing they received an alert from their bank and proceeded to steal their account credentials.

After suffering a ransomware attack by the Hive operation, the Bank of Zambia made it clear that they were not going to pay by posting a picture of male genitalia and telling the hackers to s. Last week, the Bank of Zambia, the country's central bank, disclosed that recent technical outages resulted from a cyberattack. "The Bank of Zambia wishes to inform members of the public that it experienced a partial disruption to some of its Information Technology applications on Monday 9th May 2022," disclosed the bank in a press release.