Graham Cluley writes: The US government has issued an alert about an active hacking team that has used malware to help them steal millions of dollars from banks around the world. A North Korean government-backed hacking group, known as the BeagleBoyz, are named as the group responsible for the attacks which are estimated to have attempted to…
Category: Financial Sector
Morgan Stanley Is Sued Over Data Breaches Tied to Missing Equipment
Melanie Waddell reports: Morgan Stanley is embroiled in a class-action lawsuit over two separate data breaches involving missing equipment that exposed clients’ personal identifiable information — including Social Security and account numbers — to third parties. The case, brought by a retirement account client and filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York…
National Cyber Awareness System Alert: FASTCash 2.0: North Korea’s BeagleBoyz Robbing Banks
Summary This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). Working with U.S. government partners, CISA, Treasury, FBI, and USCYBERCOM identified malware and indicators of compromise (IOCs) used by the…
Japan: Mitsukoshi and MI Card announce data breach affecting approximately 19,000 customers
OneTrust Data Guidance reports: Isetan Mitsukoshi Co., Ltd and MI Card Co., Ltd announced, on 5 August 2020, that they had suffered a data breach affecting approximately 19,000 customers as a result of unauthorised access. In particular, MI Card noted that the data breach occurred on the Isetan Mitsukoshi Online Store as well as MI Card’s homepage. In…
Ad Industry Opposes FTC’s Proposed Security Regulations For Financial Institutions
Wendy Davis reports: The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed changes to security regulations for financial institutions could also affect a broad swath of non-financial companies — including ad agencies, social networks, lead generators and ad-tech companies — according to the Association of National Advertisers. The organization is urging the FTC to refrain from imposing a slate…
Capital One fined $80 million for 2019 hack of 100 million credit card applications
Devlin Barrett reports: Capital One has agreed to pay an $80 million fine to U.S. regulators over a major hacking incident last year in which authorities say about 100 million credit card applications were illegally accessed. The Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business said it has taken steps to tighten security around its…