Globex
December 21, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Hackers try to steal 55 million rubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system. At the end the hackers only withdraw around $100,000.
Bitcoin Gold
November 22, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
More than $3.3 million worth of Cryptocurrency is stolen as part of an elaborate scam that took advantage of bitcoin users seeking to claim their share of the newly created cryptocurrency Bitcoin Gold.
TIO Networks
December 1, 2017
•[ leak, finance ]
PayPal Holdings suspends the operations of TIO Networks, a publicly traded payment processor PayPal acquired in July 2017, after a review of TIO's network has identified a potential compromise of personally identifiable information for approximately 1.6 million customers.
Electroneum
November 6, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
UK cryptocurrency startup Electroneum is the victim of a DDoS attack immediately after having raised $40m ( 30m).
Aviva
October 25, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
According to the security group RedLock, a group of hackers managed to breach Amazon Web Services belonging to two companies on the Amazon Cloud: Aviva and Gemalto. The breach was due to poor password policy and aimed to use the resources to mine cryptocurrency.
NIC Asia Bank
November 4, 2017
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
NIC Asia Bank, based in Kathmandu, suffers a hack on its computer networks, which abused the SWIFT financial messaging system to help steal approximately $4.4m
Bithumb
October 16, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Local news publications and leading media outlets in South Korea reported that Bithumb, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, suffered a security breach that affected 30,000 users on the trading platform.
Etherparty
October 1, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Hackers disrupt the Etherparty ICO (Initial Coin Offering) after hijacking the platform's website, displaying their own Ethereum address, tricking 59 ICO participants into sending funds to the wrong wallets.
Catholic United Financial
September 6, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
An unknown attacker accesses nearly 130K accounts at Catholic United Financial. The attack happened on September 6th.
Crystal Finance Millennium
August 23, 2017
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Hackers breach the servers of Crystal Finance Millennium (CFM), another Ukraine company that makes accounting software for local businesses, sparking fear of a new global cyberattack.
Unnamed Bitcoin exchange in South Korea
August 24, 2017
•[ hack, espionage, finance ]
The CWIC Cyber Warfare Research Center in South Korea reveals that a domestic exchange for bitcoin has been the target of an attempted hacking. Suspects are directed to North Korea.
Bittrex
August 19, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
A fake website pretends to be the official site for Bittrex exchange, but in reality, it is a phishing domain not only stealing login credentials of unsuspecting users, but also the money saved in the exchange.
Three major banks in Hungary
August 8, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
The National Bank of Hungary reveals that hackers have been targeting three major banks in Hungary with a slew of phishing attempts.
UniCredit
July 26, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
UniCredit SpA, Italy's No. 1 bank, says that hackers took biographical and loan data from 400,000 client accounts. The attack occurred in September and October of 2016 and June and July of this year.
ClassicEtherWallet
June 29, 2017
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
An unknown attacker gains control over the web domain of Classic Ether Wallet, a client-side wallet system for the Ethereum Classic (ETC) cryptocurrency, being able to phish credentials and redirect transactions. Based on reported cases, the hacker might have stolen nearly $300,000.
Bank of America customers
July 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
A new campaign targets Bank of America customers via emails pretending to be from representatives of the Bank of America.
Bithumb
June 29, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
The largest bitcoin and ether exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb, is hacked. The losses could be in the billions of won.
Avanti Markets
July 8, 2017
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Avanti Markets, a self-service payment kiosks vendors acknowledges to have suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to payment devices.
Undetermined
June 27, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
Threat actors deploy a tool, called NotPetya, with the purpose of encrypting data on victims' machines and rendering it unusable. The malware was spread through tax software that companies and individuals require for filing taxes in Ukraine and spread globally.'Australia, Estonia,'Denmark, Lithuania, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued statements attributing NotPetya to Russian state-sponsored actors.
BTC-E
June 5, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
BTC-E.com, the popular Bitcoin and Litecoin exchange platform is the target of a DDoS Attack.
