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An e-crime actor of Mexican provenance has been linked to an Android mobile malware campaign targeting financial institutions globally, but with a specific focus on Spanish and Chilean banks, from June 2021 to April 2023. "Despite using relatively unsophisticated tools, Neo Net has achieved a high success rate by tailoring their infrastructure to specific targets, resulting in the theft of over 350,000 EUR from victims' bank accounts and compromising Personally Identifiable Information of thousands of victims," Thill said.
Pro-Kremlin groups Anonymous Sudan, Killnet and Clop have other motivations than just hacktivism as they widen their attack field beyond political targets. The June 19 attack against the European Investment Bank may have been a salvo aimed at thwarting financial pipelines supporting Ukraine's war effort, although the motives of the threat groups are still subject to speculation, experts say.
Squad claimed an attack that took down Russian telecom provider Infotel JSC on Thursday evening. Among other things, Moscow-based Infotel provides connectivity services between the Russian Central Bank and other Russian banks, online stores, and credit institutions.
An unknown cybercrime threat actor has been observed targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking victims to compromise online banking accounts in Mexico, Peru, and Portugal. The cybersecurity company attributed the campaign, dubbed Operation CMDStealer, to a Brazilian threat actor based on an analysis of the artifacts.
A Brazilian threat actor is targeting Portuguese financial institutions with information-stealing malware as part of a long-running campaign that commenced in 2021. PeepingTitle, like Maxtrilha, is written in the Delphi programming language and is equipped to grant the attacker full control over the compromised hosts as well as capture screenshots and drop additional payloads.
A Brazilian hacking group has been targeting thirty Portuguese government and private financial institutions since 2021 in a malicious campaign called 'Operation Magalenha. The attackers use many methods to distribute their malware to targets, including phishing emails pretending to come from Energias de Portugal and the Portuguese Tax and Customs Authority, social engineering, and malicious websites that mimic these organizations.
The UK National Savings and Investment bank is being bombarded with complaints over failing online security and authentication features which customers say have locked them out of their accounts. The Register has contacted NS&I to offer it the opportunity to respond.
Websites and mobile apps of Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB Bank, and Bank of Scotland are experiencing web and mobile app outages leaving customers unable to access their account balances and information. BleepingComputer has been able to confirm that the four major UK banks are currently experiencing disruptions related to their online banking and mobile banking systems since the early morning hours of Friday, April 28th. Websites of banks including Lloyds, Halifax, TSB, and Bank of Scotland admit that some customers are having issues when accessing Internet and Mobile banking services.
A new Android trojan called 'Chameleon' has been targeting users in Australia and Poland since the start of the year, mimicking the CoinSpot cryptocurrency exchange, an Australian government agency, and the IKO bank. The mobile malware was discovered by cybersecurity firm Cyble, which reports seeing distribution through compromised websites, Discord attachments, and Bitbucket hosting services.
Australia's Westpac bank re-wrote its job ads for infosec roles after finding the language it used deterred female candidates. The land down under, like most other lands, has a shortage of cyber security professionals.