Takashi Nakamichi and Takako Taniguchi report: Japan’s Financial Services Agency is set to order Nomura Holdings Inc. to submit a report on how client information was leaked to a rival firm, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The regulator has asked Nippon Institutional Securities Co., the company that received the information from a Nomura employee, to provide…
Category: Financial Sector
Philippines Police Nab Four Nigerians For Allegedly Hacking, Siphoning Funds From Bank
The Tide reports: The Philippines National Bureau of Investigation, yesterday, arrested four Nigerian nationals in Muntinlupa City of the country for alleged involvement in an international syndicate that hacks and siphons funds from banks. According to the NBI, the fraudsters’ transactions were traced when they hacked a system of one Philippine bank, where at least…
Chilean bank shuts down all branches following ransomware attack
There’s an update to the situation with Banco Estado, noted previously on this site. Catalin Cimpanu reports: BancoEstado, one of Chile’s three biggest banks, was forced to shut down all branches on Monday following a ransomware attack that took place over the weekend. “Our branches will not be operational and will remain closed today,” the…
Banco Estado detected malicious software on its systems that would have affected its platforms
The following is a Google translation of an article that appears at biobiochile.cl. DataBreaches.net was tipped to the breach by @ chum1ng0. The Banco Estado published a press release this Sunday in which it acknowledges that it detected malicious software in its operating systems, a problem that the entity’s cybersecurity teams detected and that have already…
CNN-News18 allegedly hacked to deny PayTM hack claims
What a weird story about the lengths some folks will go to to deny that they were responsible for a hack. Ax Sharma reports: A hacker group that goes by the names “John Wick” and “Korean Hackers” have provided BleepingComputer with information on the hacking of the Indian Prime Minister’s Twitter account and the online systems of popular Indian news…
RCMP charge 2 Montreal men in cyberattacks at Canadian Tire, BMO and Simplii
CBC reports: The RCMP have laid charges against two Montrealers after an investigation into high-profile cyberattacks at Canadian Tire, Bank of Montreal and Simplii a few years ago. The RCMP said in a press release Thursday that Jacob Costanzo-Peterson and Félix Costanzo-Peterson have been charged with unauthorized use of a computer, identity theft and possession of a device…