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Network and asset discovery provider Rumble this week announced that it has raised $5 million in VC funding. Founded by H.D. Moore, who is best known for creating Metasploit and who also started Rapid7's Project Sonar, Rumble officially launched in October 2019, after a six-month beta period.
Today its technologies enable Axis Bank's wearables as a stylish and secure contactless way of payment. Thales has managed to condense the technology of a contactless payment card into a tiny piece of secure payment technology - Thales Gemalto FlexiTag - that can be invisibly integrated into a vast range of wearable shapes and sizes.
A US hacker collective on Tuesday claimed to have tapped into footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, carmaker Tesla and other sites to expose "The surveillance state." Images captured from hacked surveillance video were posted on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag.
Hackers gained access to live surveillance cameras installed at Tesla, Equinox, healthcare clinics, jails, and banks, including the Bank of Utah. In addition to images captured from the cameras, the hacker also shared screenshots of their ability to gain root shell access to the surveillance systems used by Cloudflare and at Telsa HQ. According to Tillie Kottmann, a reverse engineer for the group of hackers, they gained access to these surveillance systems using a super admin account for Verkada, a surveillance company who works with all of these organizations.
US bank and mortgage lender Flagstar has disclosed a data breach after the Clop ransomware gang hacked their Accellion file transfer server in January. On Friday, Flagstar Bank issued a security disclosure on their website and began emailing customers about a breach of their Accellion FTA server.
Account takeovers and online banking fraud are two types of attacks on the rise against financial institutions and their customers, says Feedzai. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 saw a quick and abrupt transition to digital banking and commerce, a boon for banks and customers alike.
In its' Mobile Malware Evolution 2020, Kaspersky documents the current mobile threat landscape and identifies 2021 mobile security trends. "We saw a decrease in the number of attacks in the first half of the year, which can be attributed to the confusion of the first months of the pandemic," wrote Victor Chebyshev, a mobile security researcher at Kaspersky and author of the report.
A hacking group called 'Hotarus Corp' has hacked Ecuador's Ministry of Finance and the country's largest bank, Banco Pichincha, where they claim to have stolen internal data. The ransomware gang first targeted Ecuador's Ministry of Finance, the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Ecuador, where they deployed a PHP-based ransomware strain to encrypt a site hosting an online course.
TD Bank has recovered from a major IT systems outage today that prevented account holders from accessing their online bank accounts, use ATM, or check balances over the phone. The outage started at approximately 2 AM EST this morning and prevented TD Bank members from logging into their online accounts.
TD Bank has recovered from a major IT systems outage today that prevented account holders from accessing their online bank accounts, use ATM, or check balances over the phone. The outage started at approximately 2 AM EST this morning and prevented TD Bank members from logging into their online accounts.