Pierluigi Paganini reports: According to a report published by the analytic software firm FICO, US Debit Cards compromised raise up to 39% in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same timeframe one year prior. In the same period, FICO reported an increase in the number of ATMs and point-of-sale devices (+21%) in…
Category: Financial Sector
Mirai Malware Attacker Extradited From Germany to UK
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Admitted Mirai malware mastermind Daniel Kaye, 29, has been extradited from Germany to the United Kingdom, where he faces charges that he launched cyberattacks against two of Britain’s biggest banks. Kaye, a British national from Surrey, England, returned to Britain Wednesday in the custody of officers of the National Crime Agency…
Italian bank UniCredit admits data breaches affecting 400,000 customers
Luke Irwin reports: UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank, has admitted that it suffered two data breaches in the past year, affecting 400,000 customers in total. In a statement, the bank confirmed that no passwords were stolen in the attacks, which occurred between September and October of 2016 and then June and July this year. UniCredit did…
British Malware Researcher Charged with Allegedly Creating the Kronos Banking Trojan
So yesterday afternoon, Twitter exploded as word spread that Marcus Hutchins, aka @MalwareTechBlog, had been arrested as he attempted to board a flight back to the U.K. Hutchins, who became an “accidental hero” in stopping the spread of WannaCry, was accused of creating and conspiring with another unnamed defendant in the matter of the Kronos…
Spain allows extradition of alleged Russian hacker to US
AFP reports: Spain’s top-level National Court has okayed extraditing Stanislav Lisov, an alleged Russian hacker accused of creating an online banking malware, to the United States, it said Tuesday. Lisov was detained in January in Barcelona’s El Prat airport when he was about to board a plane. He was subsequently jailed pending a decision on whether…
UniCredit Says 400,000 Accounts Were Hacked, Exposing Data
Sonia Sirletti and Edward Robinson report: UniCredit SpA said hackers accessed about 400,000 client bank accounts in Italy, taking biographical and loan data in one of the biggest breaches in Europe to date. The breaches occurred in September and October of 2016 and June to July of this year, the bank said on Wednesday in…