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Brian Wasuna reports: When financial institutions in Kenya started recording increased cyber-attacks in 2010, it was believed the country’s detectives would easily stamp out the crime. Back then, most cybercrime incidents involved hackers stealing smal… Continue reading Inside Forkbombo, the dreaded Kenyan cybercrime gang
Many readers may never have heard of CSI Financial Services, LLC but as ClearBalance, the California firm services loans made by hospitals and providers to patients who need to finance medical expenses. A recent filing with the Maine Attorney General&#… Continue reading ClearBalance notifying more than 209,000 patients who have medical expense loans
Jefferson Robbins reports: A California man suspected of using bogus credit cards to steal about $16,000 from Wenatchee Valley ATMs is now in custody. Fabio Ciuciu, 19, has been identified as the person in a photograph taken from a Cashmere Valley bank… Continue reading Romanian 19-year-old charged with thousands in local ATM withdrawal thefts
Scott D. Yost reports: Social Security numbers. Bank account numbers. Dates of birth. Driver’s license numbers. Customers of the Bank of Oak Ridge have had all that information exposed due to a security breach. Hackers have hit the bank and unknown o… Continue reading NC: Hackers Steal Critical Customer Data From Bank Of Oak Ridge
Lance Taubin, Kate Hanniford, and Kimberly Peretti of Alston & Bird write: The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued new guidance this week intended to assist organizations in thwarting ransomware attacks. The guidance clarifies … Continue reading NYDFS Issues Guidance on Cybersecurity Controls to Combat Ransomware and Clarifies Reporting Obligations
Patrick Donahue and Jake Rudnitsky report: A hacker group linked to the Russian state known as “Fancy Bear” conducted a cyber attack on critical German infrastructure and the country’s banking system in the past few days, Bild newspaper reported, citin… Continue reading Russian Hackers Mounted Cyber Attack on German Banks, Bild Says
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US government has filed a superseding indictment against Paige A. Thompson, a former Amazon engineer accused of hacking Capital One and stealing the personal data of more than 100 million Americans. According to court docum… Continue reading New charges filed against Capital One hacker, trial postponed to 2022
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Nucleus Software Exports, an Indian company that provides lending software to banks and retail stores, has suffered a major ransomware attack that crippled some of its internal networks and encrypted sensitive business informat… Continue reading EpsilonRed ransomware group hits one of India’s financial software powerhouses
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two members of the Carbanak (Cobalt) cybercrime group were sentenced today in a Kazakhstan court to eight years in prison for stealing from Kazakhstan banks. The sentencing was announced today by the Almaty city prosecutor’s of… Continue reading Two Carbanak hackers sentenced to eight years in prison in Kazakhstan
Isabel Woodford reports: Consumers have raised the alarm about a data breach — including users’ names — at Klarna, Europe’s largest private fintech. The company, which is reportedly in the throes of closing a deal valuing it at $40bn, came under fire o… Continue reading Klarna battles data breach with reports of leaked user info