Security News

How fraud prevention tech can save banks €10M a year
2019-09-04 04:00

A typical European bank, serving 10 million customers, could save up to €10 million annually and avoid growing fines by the regulator by implementing technology to improve the ‘Know Your Customer’...

'Silence' Gang Ramps Up Bank Assaults
2019-08-22 17:03

Russian-Speaking Group Causing More Damage as It Expands Globally"Silence," a Russian-speaking criminal group that has stolen $4.2 million from ATMs and financial institutions since 2016, has...

Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics
2019-08-21 07:18

Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, known for targeting financial organizations primarily in former Soviet states and neighboring countries is now aggressively targeting banks in...

European Central Bank shuts down website following hack, data theft
2019-08-19 10:20

The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed on Thursday that its Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary (BIRD) website has been compromised by attackers and taken down until the situation is brought...

European Central Bank Closes a Website Following Hack
2019-08-16 17:48

Malware Found; Personal Data Apparently ExposedThe European Central Bank has closed one of its websites after its IT staff found that a hacker compromised some personal information on the site and...

European Central Bank Shuts Down 'BIRD Portal' After Getting Hacked
2019-08-16 12:18

The European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed Thursday that it had been hit by a cyberattack that involved attackers injecting malware into one of its websites and potentially stealing contact...

ECB Uncovers Data Breach in Bank Newsletter
2019-08-15 18:13

Hackers had access for months to the contact information of hundreds of financial industry subscribers to a European Central Bank newsletter, the Frankfurt institution said Thursday. "Unauthorised...

Pwn an iPhone to bank $1m, Check Point gripes about WhatsApp privacy again, Broadcom eats Symantec enterprise biz
2019-08-09 00:30

Apple expands bug bounties, and more from Vegas this week Black Hat Here's a quick summary of some important infosec happenings from inside and outside the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas on...

Mobile-Only Bank Monzo Warns 480,000 Customers to Reset PINs
2019-08-06 18:33

Software Bug Meant Some Numbers Were Stored UnencryptedMonzo, a U.K. mobile-only bank that plans to expand into the U.S., alerted about 480,000 customers to change their PINs this week after the...

Digital bank Monzo urges customers to change PINs following security breach
2019-08-06 10:58

Monzo, a UK-based mobile-only bank, has notified a subset of its users that their PINs have been inadvertently leaked into internal log files and were accessible to some of the company’s...