KeepKey
December 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, discloses how a brief compromise of the company phone and email enabled the attacker to reset some account passwords.
VTB
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
State-Owned Russian Bank VTB reveals to have been targeted by hackers with a DDoS attack.
Mario Monti
January 11, 2017
•[ espionage, malware, finance ]
Italian siblings Giulio and Francesca Maria Occhionero are arrested in Rome, charged with conducting a long-running cyber espionage campaign against leading Italian politicians, businessmen and Masons using a variant of the malware family EyePyramid. Among the victims are the grand master of Italy's biggest lodge, the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and former Italian prime ministers, Matteo Renzi and Mario Monti.
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency
December 2, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Eight Saudi institutions are hit by a destructive cyber attack allegedly generating from Iran, carried on using a new version of the infamous Shamoon Malware. Among the victims is the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the country's central bank.
Nets
October 26, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Danish payment processor company Nets advises local banks to block up to 100,000 credit cards on suspicion their security might have been compromised by hackers.
SWIFT
October 12, 2016
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
Symantec reveals that a second group of hackers are attempting to rob banks by targeting SWIFT users deploying the same methods that led to the Bangladesh Bank hacking heist. The tools used are linked to the Odinaff group, which since the beginning of the year, has targeted financial institutions worldwide.
SS&C Technologies
September 16, 2016
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
SS&C Technologies, falls victim to China-based hackers who sent fake emails to company staffers in order to trick them into releasing client money, according to a complaint.
Unknown Organization
September 9, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Turkish hackers have launched DoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks against the web servers of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB).
vDoS
September 8, 2016
•[ hack, leak, ddos ]
vDos, a "booter" service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 DDoS attacks is massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets.
Bank of Moscow
November 8, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
A hacker called vimproducts claims to have taken down several Russian banks including the Moscow Exchange, the Bank of Moscow, Rosbank, and Alfa-Bank.
ICICI Bank
October 20, 2016
•[ financial, leak, finance ]
Details of more than 3.2 million cash cards of customers of top Indian banks (Visa, Mastercard, RuPay) have reportedly been stolen in what could be one of the biggest financial data breaches in the country. The worst hit banks are the State Bank of India, HFDC Bank, ICICI Bank, YES Bank, and Axis Bank.
Axis Bank
October 19, 2016
•[ financial, finance ]
Axis Bank, India's third-largest private bank, announces that it was the victim of a cyber-attack, but has managed to stop the intrusion before the hacker stole any funds from customer accounts.
South Korea
August 1, 2016
•[ espionage, hack, finance ]
North Korean hackers gain access to data of dozens of South Korean officials including diplomats and top security personnel. Emails and passwords of as many as 56 people are leaked.
Top Eight Banks in Taiwan including Bank of Taiwan, Chang Hwa Bank, First Bank.
July 12, 2016
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
The top eight banks in Taiwan have been forced to shut down activity on hundreds of ATMs after a coordinated group of thieves used malware to steal NT$70 million ($2.17m, 1.64m, 1.9m) in cash.
Unnamed Indian bank
August 2, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
A pro-Pakistani hacker dubbed Afzal Faizal claims to have obtained access to the e-payment system of a nationalized bank.
HSBC
July 12, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hacker group OurMine, claims that it temporarily took down the servers of HSBC in the US and the UK.
The DAO
June 21, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Unknown attackers attack the DAO foundation and steal more than 3.6 million Ethereum (whose value is between $45 and $77 million).
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS Global)
June 15, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
1x0123, the same hacker who previously claimed to have hacked PornHub, claims to have hacked the client portal of Fidelity National Information Services.
Unnamed Ukrainian bank
June 25, 2016
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
Another hack carried on via the SWIFT messaging system: this time hackers have stolen $10 million from an unnamed Ukrainian bank, according to an ISACA report.
London Stock Exchange (LSE)
June 2, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hackers affiliated to the Anonymous collective claim to have taken down the London Stock Exchange in the name of OpIcarus.
