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The systems used by financial institutions often turn out to be unsecure, exposing their customers to malicious operations. However, a security expert claims that instead of addressing these issues, many banks turn to threaten the ones that found the flaws to remove proof-of-concept (PoC) papers and videos from publi... |
9 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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After Anonymous hacktivists took down the official Brazilian websites of the Bradesco bank, a series of phishing emails were spotted in inboxes. It’s uncertain if the incidents are related, but users are advised to be on the lookout for any suspicious emails that seem to come from the bank.
Originating from th... |
9 February 2012
04:29 GMT |
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The famous hacktivist collective TeaMp0isoN continues to hack websites that belong to governments they consider corrupt and violent. Their latest hack’s purpose was to support the Syrian people in their fight against the local government and, as a result, they leaked tons of banking information. “Last fe... |
9 February 2012
03:04 GMT |
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Classic bank fraud schemes are far from being history, but they're constantly improving. This is proved by two men who were arrested by police officers on suspicion of installing a skimming device at a Chase Bank in Thousand Oaks, California.
KTLA reports that the suspects, 31-year-old Aram Dzhanszyan and Ter M... |
7 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Anonymous Brazil continues its operations against the country’s state and financial institutions, the latest victims being HSBC, Banco Bradesco, Itau and Banco do Brasil, attacked as part of OpWeeksPayment. Currently, Bradesco and Banco do Brasil are up and running normally, the latter stating on its Twitter p... |
3 February 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Security researchers identified a variant of the Ice IX malware currently targeting online banking information that belongs to users in the United States and the United Kingdom. This modified version of ZeuS tries to steal not only bank account data, but also information on telephone accounts belonging to the victims... |
2 February 2012
05:05 GMT |
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After moving his operations out of Africa, the grey hat hacker known as SEPO moved his operations to the Middle East, where just like in Africa, he targets banks and other major institutions that are either considered corrupt or simply vulnerable.
His last operation targeted the Central Bank of Bahrain, a financial ... |
2 February 2012
03:05 GMT |
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The fact that the hacker 0xOmar leaked information from a large number of credit cards belonging to Israeli citizens caused a lot of commotion, and pro-Israel hackers are determined to retaliate and win this unofficial cyberwar.
A Pastebin document provides the statement of the “pro-Israeli person,” who ... |
18 January 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Security experts show that a virus can take full control over an Internet Explorer browser and manipulate bank transactions in real-time even if the bank’s customer that’s about to perform the task relies on an OTP (one time password) device. Yash K.S., chief technology officer at Red Force Labs, release... |
18 January 2012
07:58 GMT |
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During the holidays cybercriminals kept themselves busy, hacking websites and stealing all the data they could find. South African Postbank, a financial institution owned by SA Post Office, is one of the victims, the hackers stealing around $6.7 Million (€4.6 Million).
Fin24 reports that the National Intelligen... |
17 January 2012
07:23 GMT |
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It’s not uncommon to come across phishing emails that point to pages perfectly replicating the legitimate site of the company whose name is involved in the scam. Security experts have found a couple of phishing campaigns that rely on Google Docs to make them look more genuine.
One of the malicious emails targ... |
16 January 2012
09:53 GMT |
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One of Australia’s largest online broking companies, E*Trade, was shut down during the holidays after being targeted by a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Mostly customers from overseas were affected, but Australians also had trouble accessing the websites on December 19 and 20 as a result of the thousands of s... |
4 January 2012
10:44 GMT |
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With the holiday season quickly approaching and individuals making a lot of online transactions, cyber fraudsters pull out their old tricks from the closet and begin targeting once again the unsuspecting clients of financial institutions.
Chase and Barclays customers take the spotlight in the latest series of phishi... |
21 December 2011
08:22 GMT |
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A number of 15 collection letters, sent by the Bank of Melbourne to some of their customers, were found to contain sensitive information on other clients. Names, addresses, account numbers and amounts owed may have been included.
According to The Australian, due to a technical error, the financial institution insert... |
16 December 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Some of the customers of Romanian CEC Bank are being alerted by the financial institutions that they’re cards will be blocked and reissued along with their PINs after receiving numerous complaints about credit card details being leaked from the databases of an international company.
The company that suffered t... |
14 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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In September 2011, around $6,000 (4,200 EUR) were stolen from a SunTrust bank account belonging to Deer Chase Elementary School, in Richmond County, by a hacker group allegedly based in Florida.
It’s suspected that the same group illegally accessed the school’s PTA fund in 2010, making away with around ... |
9 December 2011
07:49 GMT |
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A recent security incident that involves a Massachusetts financial institution called Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union shows that it’s not necessary for hackers to be involved for data leaks to occur.
More precisely, one of their employees that left the company in December 2010, took with her some files that c... |
8 December 2011
09:22 GMT |
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After the First National Bank of Long Island and the BCD Credit Union were found to be vulnerable by the members of the p0isAnon alliance, now the British Airways Employees Federal Credit Union joins the list of victims. Initially, Operation Robin Hood planned to go after banks, but now they reached the conclusion t... |
7 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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The newly formed alliance p0isAnon, which is behind OpRobinHood, the operation that targets banks with the purpose of aiding poor citizens, but at the same time aiming to make them withdraw their money from banks, showed that not only US banks are vulnerable. As it turns out, BCD Credit Union from the UK presents an... |
5 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Dirty coal business is still in the game mostly because it's profitable. Banks know it best, since they invest billions of dollars every year in this field of activity. A recent reports reveals that JP Morgan Chase is, by far, the most influent player, backing the coal industry with no less than $22 billion (&eu... |
2 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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After many voices in the media claimed that their operations wouldn’t work because the banks they targeted would initiate chargebacks to recover the money fraudulently taken from them, the hacker groups behind Operation Robin Hood came forward with a statement.
They claim that they’re highly aware of the... |
1 December 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Researchers noticed that the Thanksgiving celebration not only brings joy and laughter but also a lot of phishing campaigns that rely on the reputations of financial institutions.
GFI Labs came across two samples at the moment, one replicating SunTrust, and the other, Bank of America, but it shouldn't surprise ... |
24 November 2011
03:36 GMT |
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USAA, a privately held bank and insurance company, has updated its iPhone application this week to introduce a check deposit feature. Using the app, customers can simply take a snapshot of both sides of a check. USAA claims that by using this method the process of depositing a check is done completely electronically.... |
11 August 2009
04:31 GMT |
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After Bush and the EPA made the coal mining industry a going-away present, in the bill that allowed it to dump debris from its mountaintop exploitations – in other words, the sites where they blew the top of mountains and picked the coal that came out – activists from several environmental groups managed ... |
9 December 2008
05:54 GMT |
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The CEO of the fourth largest bank in the UK discovered an identity theft that cost him several thousands of pounds, as the Daily Mail reports. Andy Hornby was on vacation when a person in the staff of HBOS, the bank he manages, told him that his account had been frozen, because of some unusual transactions that had ... |
22 August 2008
05:43 GMT |
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It's no surprise that phishers take over bank clients because this is the most common way to steal financial information, bank account details and other sensitive data. However, phishers use more and more sophisticated techniques which could simply trick their targets and turn them into victims. A few days ago, ... |
27 May 2008
03:49 GMT |
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Today's phishers have pretty advanced techniques and today's report comes to support this statement. According to Port Clinton News Herald, a phisher used an email account belonging to First National Bank of Bellevue in order to send phishing emails to its customers. As usual, the main goal of the scam was ... |
26 May 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Usually, hackers interested in financial information attack banks or financial institutions, which could give them easy access to bank accounts. However, is there anyone who ever thought that going to a restaurant may cost you more than your meal? Well, your answer might be "no" but, according to recent reports, goin... |
14 May 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Bank of Israel was recently forced to shut down its website after having been attacked by hackers apparently coming from Algeria, the Jerusalem Post reports today. The website was taken offline on Friday because a hacker called "The Moorish" broke into the servers and modified the content of the page. Besides posting... |
30 April 2008
08:05 GMT |
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There are so many hacked online bank accounts that banks all over the world start getting tired of helping, recovering and restoring users' accounts just because they were so naive to disclose their login credentials or install useless security products. Because of that, the British Bankers' Association (BB... |
4 April 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla, a 40-year-old man from Colombia, has pleaded guilty to a 16-count indictment involving a complex computer fraud scheme, victimizing over 600 people, the US Department of Justice announced in a news release. The Colombian citizen managed to steal money from victims' bank accounts and bou... |
11 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
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And... it's here! What seems to be the first Trojan targeting your bank account information is finally here! TROJ_BANKER.MQH comes with a medium damage potential, which underlines the Trojan's capability to reach its goals, in our case - stealing the bank account info. According to security vendor Trend Mic... |
10 January 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Jeremy Clarkson, famous for hosting the Top Gear TV series, lost about 500 pounds after someone managed to set up a direct debit transfer to the charity Diabetes UK, BBC News informed today. And all of this happened after the popular TV presenter decided to publish his bank account details into the newspaper, just to... |
8 January 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Typos are the source of many evil happenings all over the world, from wrong messages sent to wrong people, and continuously annoying people on the cell phone because you've remembered two numbers in the wrong order, up to changing the whole meaning of your essay's catchphrase to make it be the most obscene... |
21 December 2007
15:31 GMT |
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The Dutch police today announced that it had arrested 14 people suspected to be involved in several phishing scams, conducted by Russian and Ukrainian hackers. The 14 persons put their ABN Amro accounts at hackers' disposal and allowed them to transfer stolen money into their accounts. The illegal funds, which w... |
20 December 2007
09:18 GMT |
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A paper shredder - $16.99. The renovation of a bank branch - $221 million. The bank vault plans - priceless. This would be the greatest motto the Bundesbank's Berlin branch could have used, as they chose to put sensitive bank documents right in the trash without even shredding them. Moreover, the papers where f... |
14 December 2007
03:49 GMT |
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Let's suppose you have a bank account with online support, so you want to connect to the Internet and check your account. Simple as taking candies from a baby! Obviously, you load the official website of the bank and enter your login credentials. After a certain period of time, you notice that your account is em... |
12 December 2007
01:58 GMT |
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A woman living in Ohio discovered that a company was stealing money from her account, although nobody had ever informed her about this matter. According to CentralOhio, a company named Fabri-tex took $6,95 from her account, even if the woman didn't know about this. It wouldn't be such a major problem, but a... |
6 December 2007
09:45 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, a security researcher managed to prove us that a huge number of credit cards could be bought online at very low prices. And today, The Times confirms this issue, as the publication has managed to access numerous samples of stolen data, supposed to convince the users to buy a bigger pack of details. T... |
3 December 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Bradley Gilbert, a 20-year-old man from Bethlehem, was sent to prison for money fraud after he used his ex-employer's bank account to access pornographic content, The Morning Call reports today. In case you're saying this is no big deal, you should know that Mr. Gilbert spent no less than $3,196 on the adul... |
14 November 2007
06:08 GMT |
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The US Commerce bank has been attacked by a hacker. The malicious user tried to do as much damage as he could, be he was quickly repelled.It's not often that we hear of such a thing, so that's why I'm calling it a good piece of news. Now, let me tell you - hackers attack banks, companies, organizations... |
11 October 2007
02:56 GMT |
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I'm sure you're familiar with the fact that the site belonging to the Bank of India has recently been hacked and infected with a lot of malware. It has been said by Sunbelt experts that the Russian Business Network is behind all this. In any case, the attacks have ceased, the page has been "repaired" and is... |
4 September 2007
10:39 GMT |
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Security on the Internet is just a dream and you know it. If a hacker wants to do something, he or she can do it. If one system is secure and cannot be hacked, then they will steal the data of someone who has access to it, and then, do the "work" from the inside. Do you think you're safe just because some sites ... |
3 September 2007
03:48 GMT |
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You can imagine the expectations of a woman who appeals to a bank sperm: the father must be tall, muscular, wide shouldered, with nice a*s, and a big penis. And when the creature they give birth to after nine months of pregnancy looks like ET and has some rare mutation or genetic disorder... A novel New Scientist... |
11 August 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Nowadays most companies use only credit card and numbered accounts in order to pay their employees and cash payments are growing rarer by the day. One problem that arises from this approach is the identity theft or the loss of valuable information like PIN numbers and so on.A number of hardware companies tried, with ... |
24 July 2007
11:41 GMT |
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Google's advertising platform AdSense is surely the most popular solution in its category because it brings free money to numerous registered members. If you didn't know, the Mountain View company automatically sends checks to advertisers once the amount of money from your account reaches a certain limit. B... |
17 July 2007
02:21 GMT |
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Phishing is one of the most dangerous online activities because they are usually targeting banks or other financial organizations that can allow the attackers to earn a considerable amount of money in a matter of seconds. Basically, a phishing attack starts with an email message and ends right after you enter your in... |
6 July 2007
10:43 GMT |
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A new phishing campaign is about to begin in New Zealand as some emails are already inviting users to fake websites that are trying to get their private information. According to Sophos, the email claims to come from Kiwibank and requires users to write their account details to "guarantee their money". The message su... |
30 May 2007
16:56 GMT |
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A shocking YouTube clip reveals that Chase Bank threw several documents containing clients' information in numerous trash bags. Among other types of information, the documents were showing social security numbers and bank accounts, a private type of data that might be used for identity theft. However, the author... |
1 May 2007
16:11 GMT |
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The Bank of Hanover was recently attacked by several phishers, aiming to attract the bank's customers to reveal their financial information and account data. Websense Security Labs sustained that numerous bank clients received an e-mail message presenting a survey able to redirect the users to a phishing site to... |
29 March 2007
05:46 GMT |
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