The Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC) issues a semiannual risk perspective report that “addresses key issues facing banks, focusing on those that pose threats to the safety and soundness of banks and their compliance with applicable laws and regulations.” The most recent report “presents data in five main areas: the operating environment
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Privacy Tip #358 – Bank Failures Give Hackers New Strategy for Attacks
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
Hackers are always looking for the next opportunity to launch attacks against unsuspecting victims. According to Cybersecurity Dive, researchers at Proofpoint recently observed “a phishing campaign designed to exploit the banking crisis with messages impersonating several cryptocurrencies.”
According to Cybersecurity Dive, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf has observed “an uptick in newly registered domains related…
Privacy Tip #185 – Scammers Are Getting Bolder and More Insistent
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
I try to keep my spam filter on the most restrictive setting, which has dramatically decreased the amount of spam I receive in my email box every day. But every once in a while, I receive an email that makes my gut twitch and my eyebrows raise. I got one today from a well-known bank,…
Botnet Necurs Turns Its Focus On Banks
By Sean Lawless on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Just days after the FBI issued a private warning to the banking industry (read more here), the botnet network known as Necurs began a spamming campaign that targeted the banking industry. The activity was discovered by the security research firm Cofense. According to Cofense, the Necurs network started a concentrated spear phishing campaign…
Trump Hotels investigating second credit card breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
KrebsOnSecurity has reported that sources from the banking industry have advised of a pattern of fraud on credit cards used at Trump Hotel Collection (Trump) properties. Trump has confirmed that it is investigating the matter. If confirmed, this would be the second breach of its credit card systems in the past year.
Trump notified card…