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Turkish hackers target Russian banking website, mock the Russian SU-24 jet incident. A group of Turkish hackers going by the online handle WKPF hacked and defaced the official website of Russia’s Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Reconstruction and Development “Ekonombank.” The site was targeted last Monday in which the homepage was replaced with messages against Russia and […]
You have heard about phishing but now you will learn about Smishing. Hackers use phishing messages and compromised websites to steal credentials of users but, Chinese banking users are facing a new kind of threat in the form of phishing texts. These text messages seem to be sent from a leading bank’s official number. The GSM […]
FireEye IT security firm has discovered Android malware apps that can masquerade as the most popular financial applications including world’s biggest banks. In total, the security firm found Android apps from 33 financial institutions masquerading for the purpose of stealing financial data. These apps come from a family of Trojan apps known as “SlemBunk” and […]
Anonymous hackers have conducted yet another cyber attack on Turkey’s cyberspace targeting its banking system. The online hacktivist Anonymous has conducted another series of cyber attacks on Turkey and, this time, their target was the backbone of the country ie. the banking sector. According to local media, several banks were hit with powerful DDoS attack […]
Banking industry needs more time, has too much on its plate.The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced that it has pushed back the mandatory migration date for TLS 1.1 encryption or higher for organizations that process online or offline payments. In April 2015, the PCI SSC group informed us that all […]
It’s time to Pull your Money Out of the Banks- Suggests the Online Hacktivist Group — Anonymous Takes Hacktivism to Another Level. The online hacktivist group Anonymous known for targeting government servers has now shifted its focus on the financial and banking sectors. Using its conventional approach, the group announced the launching of its latest campaign […]
Hackers are targeting users with fake PayPal app update email which actually comes with an embedded link of an Android banking malware. Recently, an email circulation has been let loose by hackers. This email looks quite official in design and content, asking the recipient to update their Android PayPal app. If the users click on the […]
Security experts have warned ATM (Automated Teller Machine) users to stay clear from suspicious ATMs for past several years because of numerous security vulnerabilities but people are still carrying out transactions from hacked and infected ATMs, only to later find out that their accounts are emptied unknowingly. As new methods to hack ATMs are being […]
Security researchers over at FireEye have discovered a serious security flaw within the ATM (Automated Teller Machine) that could be exploited by the hackers to infect the machine with a next-generation of ATM malware that have the ability to hold an inserted card inside the machine, and works on the will of hackers. FireEye suggests […]
Update: Creators of SpyEye Trojan Aleksandr Panin, Hamza Bendelladj Sentenced Even though several social media platforms are claiming that Hamza Bendelladj has been sentenced to death, in reality, he cannot be sentenced to death all his criminal activities were electronic and he had already been pleaded guilty for his crimes. This news has been confirmed by […]
Some versions of Vawtrak banking Malware or Neverquest have been discovered to be having hidden command and control servers at Tor anonymity network — This reveals why the cybercriminal operation has become so difficult to detect and disrupt nowadays. Many versions of Vawtrak Banking Malware depend upon hard-coded IP addresses for their command and control operations. […]
Delivering banking malware through Microsoft Word documents has been a less common method. However, it is currently being used for spreading malicious macros and PDF files in a single item — Avast Experts. Researchers at Avast have identified that the previously less common method of spreading banking malware has suddenly been increased. They further noted […]
In a joint operation cyber police from United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany and Italy have claimed successful breakdown of what can be the world’s biggest ever botnets known as Ramnit. The Ramit malware is so dangerous that according to researchers it has compromised more than 3.2 million Microsoft Windows based PCs, and still active in 350,000 computers […]
MS Word’s Malicious Macro Facilitates Downloading of Vawtrak Trojan – This time attackers rely upon VBS file containing Execution Policy Bypass Flag. Hackers have managed to implement yet another cybercrime campaign by installing Vawtrak banking Trojan into users’ computers. According to security researchers at Trend Micro, this latest attack relies upon a multi-stage hacking routine […]
Cyber criminals have targeted millions of Facebook users through a sophisticated Android Trojan app that can bypass the two-factor authentication shield used by Facebook mobile users, says a Slovakian security firm. ESET, an IT security firm, has identified a new variant of the banking Trojan ‘Qadars,’ which injects rogue JavaScript code into Facebook pages when […]
Traditional banking could soon become a chapter of past. With e banking making a progress with each passing day and lot more people entering into it. Over the last few years people have moved a lot from traditional banking system to e-banking systems. Paypal has been leading the e-bank and is been growing with precision. […]
Cyber attacks on financial giants is not a new story these days, every now and then the hacktivist groups carry attacks on these capitalistic institutions, yet every attack has its own charm and a threat to these sectors. This is the case when attacks are carried against the leading banks of the ”world’s super power” commonly known as the […]