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Nearly a year after Malta's Bank of Valletta yanked itself from the internet amid a "Cyber intrusion", Britain's National Crime Agency has made three arrests. In the hours after the funds arrived, cash withdrawals and card payments were made to the tune of £340k, with money spaffed over London stores such as Harrods and Selfridges, the NCA alleged.
SIM swapping typically involves crooks tricking cellular network support staff to transfer victims' smartphone numbers to the criminals' own SIMs, and then using those numbers to reset passwords, or get two-factor authentication tokens, via text messages, and ultimately access and drain cryptocoin accounts. Admins using Cisco gear in their networks will want to head over to Switchzilla's security portal and check for applicable updates among the latest batch of 28 patches.
A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he...
Russian bank-hacking ring continues its global expansion The rapidly growing hacking crew dubbed Silence, has – in less than three years – gone from ransacking small regional banks in Eastern...
Security experts say the attack stemmed from weak cybersecurity controls.
Group-IB Says Analysis of Malware Leads to Russian-Speaking GangA recent $3 million bank heist in Bangladesh is likely the handiwork of "Silence," a Russian-speaking gang known for its slow and...
There's more than one way to get inside a company.
Carbon Black's Tom Kellermann on Latest Threats to BanksCarbon Black and Optiv have released their 2019 Modern Bank Heists report, which unveils the latest cyber threats to global banking...
IRIDIUM is an APT that uses proprietary techniques to bypass two-factor authentication for critical applications, according to security firm Resecurity.