Account details of 27,000 Barclays customers stolen, sold to brokers
(In)famous UK-based multinational bank Barclays has been hit this Friday with claims that someone has stolen personal and financial information of some 27,000 of its customers …
Financial sector needs non-replicable, single-use credentials
Different tokens, devices, mobile phones, e-signatures, etc. are used to authenticate our e-identities. Yet, some financial institutions are still not considering the risk of …
20M South Koreans affected by insider data theft
Personal and financial information of some 20 million South Koreans has been compromised by a consultant working for personal credit ratings firm Korea Credit Bureau (KCB), …
New Zeus variant stymies malware analysis, has rootkit capabilities
As expected, variants of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan are becoming more adept at hiding their presence from users and AV solutions, and at preventing malware analysis …
Stealing money from ATMs with malware
This talk from the 30th Chaos Communication Congress will discuss a case in which criminals compromised and robbed an ATM by infecting it with specially crafted malware. The …
Deplorable security flaws in Santander UK banking apps and site
When banks urge customers to use their mobile banking apps and sites for making online payments, users usually assume these methods are secure and do so. But Paul Moore, a …
Experts predict widespread attacks on online banking users
Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious program that its creators claim can attack “any bank in …
Large-scale net traffic misdirections and MitM attacks detected
Man-In-the-Middle BGP route hijacking attacks are becoming regular occurrences, but it’s still impossible to tell who is behind them, and what their ultimate goal is, …
Sinowal and Zbot Trojan collaborate in new attack
Trend Micro researchers have recently come across an interesting example of malware collaboration involving the Zeus banking Trojan and a new variant of the password-stealing …
British bank account data is under threat
Bitdefender warns that 0.5 per cent of all spam sent worldwide is targeting customers of some of the most popular British financial institutions and services, including …
Svpeng Android banking Trojan goes phishing
The Android banking Trojan known as Svpeng has been improved by its creators and is now capable to perform phishing attacks as well as stealing money directly from a …
The many security problems of ATMs
As much as they are useful, ATMs are also very vulnerable to tampering and attacks from individuals looking for money. eWeek reports that at the SecTor security conference …
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