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Capital One is a cautionary tale for companies rushing to embrace new tech

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Capital One always said it wasn’t like other banks. While other financial giants cautiously waded into their own digital transformations, Capital One’s leadership has sought to differentiate the $28 billion bank by investing in technology meant to modernize their business. The bank has increased its number of technology staffers to 9,000 today from 2,500 in 2011, assigning employees to software engineering, artificial intelligence and building a digital chatbot to automate reminders to customers about when their bills are due or flag unusually large restaurant tips in case they want to rescind them, Rob Alexander, the bank’s chief information officer told the Wall Street Journal last year. Capital One also was different for its use of Amazon Web Services, a rarity in the financial services industry where most corporate heavyweights simply don’t trust third-parties to store their financial data. At Capital One, the use of AWS was to serve as proof of […]

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TrickBot: New Injects, New Host

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What’s in the Name: Call it IcedID or TrickBot? Tell that to a security researcher (Arsh Arora in this case) and watch them RANT
(Gar-note: today’s blog post is a guest blog from malware analyst, Arsh Arora…) 

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Someone is spoofing big bank IP addresses – possibly to embarrass security vendors

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The last several days have seen a surge in internet traffic mimicking the IP addresses of big U.S. banks in a possible effort to disrupt the cybersecurity personnel and products that help protect them, according to GreyNoise Intelligence, a company that maps internet traffic. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and SunTrust are among the banks whose IP addresses are being spoofed to seem like they are conducting broad scans of the internet, GreyNoise said. That large-scale scanning is duping people into thinking that the IP addresses are malicious, GreyNoise founder Andrew Morris told CyberScoop. “There are a lot of people around the internet who are definitely convinced that these are bad IPs,” he said. Threat intelligence teams in the U.S. financial sector are looking into the issue, sources told CyberScoop. Morris said the volume of traffic is too low to be a distributed denial-of-service attack. Instead, he suggested, a bad […]

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Trickbot via fake Bank of America Merrill Lync “FW: Updated Account Transactions “

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This example is today’s latest spoof or imitation of a well-known company, bank or public authority delivering Trickbot banking Trojan. The email with the subject of “FW: Updated Account Transactions ” pretends to come from somebody named  … Continue reading Trickbot via fake Bank of America Merrill Lync “FW: Updated Account Transactions “→

Trickbot via Fake Bank Of America Secure Message

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A bit of a change with the Trickbot delivery system with this example. Instead of directly attaching a malicious macro enabled word doc or other Microsoft Office file to the email, it instead has a html attachment and a link in the email body  that whe… Continue reading Trickbot via Fake Bank Of America Secure Message→

Fake Bank of America Secure Message delivers Trickbot banking Trojan

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An email with the subject of Secure email message pretending to come from Bank of America but actually coming from a look-a-like domain Bank of America <message@bofamsg.com>  or Bank of America <message@bofa-msg.com> with a malicious word doc attachment  is today’s latest spoof of a well known company, bank or public … Continue reading → Continue reading Fake Bank of America Secure Message delivers Trickbot banking Trojan→

Fake Bank of America The wire request is unsuccessful! malspam delivers Chthonic banking Trojan

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An email with the subject of The wire request is unsuccessful!  pretending to come from Billing Support using random senders & email addresses  with a malicious word doc attachment  delivers Chthonic banking trojan They are using email addresses and subjects that will scare or entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. … Continue reading → Continue reading Fake Bank of America The wire request is unsuccessful! malspam delivers Chthonic banking Trojan→

Fake Bank of America The wire request is unsuccessful! malspam delivers Chthonic banking Trojan

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An email with the subject of The wire request is unsuccessful!  pretending to come from Billing Support using random senders & email addresses  with a malicious word doc attachment  delivers Chthonic banking trojan They are using email addresses and subjects that will scare or entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. … Continue reading → Continue reading Fake Bank of America The wire request is unsuccessful! malspam delivers Chthonic banking Trojan→

NSA-Backed OpenC2.org Aims to Defend Systems at Machine Speed

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Security experts, vendors, business and the NSA are developing a standardized language that rather than autonomously understands threats, acts on them. Continue reading NSA-Backed OpenC2.org Aims to Defend Systems at Machine Speed→

Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home

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The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if — at settlement — your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here’s the story about a phishing email that cost a couple their home and left them scrambling for months to recover hundreds of thousands in cash that went missing.

It was late November 2016, and Jon and Dorthy Little were all set to close on a $200,000 home in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Just prior to the closing date on Dec. 2 their realtor sent an email to the Little’s and to the law firm handling the closing, asking the settlement firm for instructions on wiring the money to an escrow account. Continue reading Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home→