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Brent Phillips of Deutsche Bank is described by peers as modest to a fault, more focused on the work at hand than on building international acclaim.
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Scammers impersonate execs to target big payout of investor dollars
Current tactics, which seek payouts that are multiple times larger than the average email impersonation scheme, are not terribly sophisticated. But if perfected, the approach could pose a serious threat to the financial investment and privacy equity community.
‘Think about problems in a different way’: Inside the Bank of America CISO’s neurodiversity push
Professionals with autism, ADHD and other conditions can bring a different way of thinking to infosec roles, “able to connect dots that we may not be able to connect,” said Bank of America’s Craig Froelich in an indepth interview.
UK ‘open banking’ efforts provide case study in risks, rewards tied to digital transformation
Much like digital transformation efforts in the U.S., open banking in the U.K. is designed to give customers and businesses ownership over their data. But regulators worry it could also be a treasure trove for fraudsters.
Financial services industry hit with tens of millions of attacks per day
The report found that the bad threat actors primarily used common attack paths, such as SQL injection, local file inclusion and cross-site scripting.
Threats without borders: Brazilian banking trojans go global
This burgeoning trend shows that no cyber threat stays localized forever, placing pressure upon security professionals to stay current on global threat intelligence and assume threats relegated to one corner of the globe will one day migrate.
Phishing scams use redirects to steal Office 365, Facebook credentials
Researchers have recently warned of two massive phishing operations, collectively targeting hundreds of thousands of users – one seeking credentials for business services such as Office 365 and the other abusing Facebook Messenger to go after roughly 450,000 of the social media giant’s account holders.
More Chinese tax software found to dish out backdoor malware
A second tax software program associated with the Chinese banking industry has now been found to contain an embedded backdoor that secretly grants attackers SYSTEM-level privileges. In late June, researchers from Trustwave SpiderLabs reported that accounting software called Intelligence Tax, developed by Chinese information security company Aisino Corporation and distributed to global clients of an…
‘GoldenSpy’ tax software campaign tries to erase evidence of malware
The actors behind a campaign to spread GoldenSpy malware via tax accounting software used by customers of a Chinese bank have recently attempted to distribute an uninstaller that deletes the backdoor in an apparent attempt to cover up their illicit activities. In a previous company blog post and threat report, Trustwave and its SpiderLabs team identified the accounting software…
Tax software used by Chinese bank clients installs GoldenSpy backdoor
A tax software program installed by business clients of an unidentified Chinese bank was trojanized with malware that installs a backdoor granting attackers SYSTEM-level privileges, researchers warn. In a company blog post and more detailed threat report, Trustwave and its SpiderLabs team identified the accounting software as Intelligent Tax, which was reportedly developed by the…
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