Jason Murdock reports: Online banking customers in the UK are being warned of a major phishing campaign using a notorious piece of malware designed to steal financial data. Customers of Barclays, Santander and Lloyds TSB are being targeted by the trojan malware known as Dyre. Nearly 20,000 malicious emails have been sent in the last…
Category: Financial Sector
NY: Cybercriminal Sentenced To 50 Months For His Role In Hacking Campaign
The following press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York provides an update on a case noted previously on this site involving a hack of JP Morgan Chase to alter prepaid debit cards issued by the American Red Cross for disaster relief victims: June 29 – Earlier today at the…
JPMorgan Reassigns Security Team Leader a Year After Data Breach
Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: The executive in charge of protecting JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s computer network from hackers has been reassigned, after a year on the job that included controversy over his handling of a massive data breach and the departure of several top security team members. Greg Rattray, a former U.S. Air…
Europol brings down Zeus, SpyEye cybercriminals
The Local reports: Investigators from six different European countries, including Austria, have succeeded in bringing down a cybercriminal group in Ukraine. Europol said that the action, which took place in Ukraine on June 18th and 19th, resulted in five arrests and the confiscation of computer equipment and other devices for further investigation. The high-level cybercriminals…
Bank of Manhattan Warns of Potential Data Leak
Ionut Ilascu reports: A data security and protection notification has been issued by the Bank of Manhattan Mortgage Lending, following the discovery that one of its employees used sensitive customer information in a manner that contradicts the organization’s policies and instructions. Read more on Softpedia.
Owner of California Payment Processing Company Charged with Fraud
The Justice Department announced today that the owner and operator of a payment processing company that was involved in the unauthorized withdrawal of millions of dollars from consumers’ bank accounts was charged with fraud. The criminal information, filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charged Neil Godfrey, 76, of Santa Ana, California, with one count…