Axa Mexico
October 23, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Insurer Axa reveals it suffered a cyber attack that prompted an alert from the Mexico central bank, however clients' information and resources are safe and have not been affected.
Davos in the Desert
October 22, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
The website of the Saudi Arabian investment conference, referred to as "Davos in the Desert", is defaced with anti-Saudi messages, to protest against the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
SpankChain
October 6, 2018
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
SpankChain, an adult industry focused cryptocurrency, has $38,000 worth of Ethereum stolen due to a smart contract bug.
SBM Holdings (State Bank of Mauritius India)
October 2, 2018
•[ financial, finance ]
Mauritius banking group SBM Holdings unveils that its Indian operations suffered a cyber fraud earlier in the week, and that the bank has potentially lost up to $14 million worth. The bank is able to recover $10 million.
US Banks
October 2, 2018
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
A joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and the Treasury warns about a new ATM cash-out scheme, dubbed "FASTCash," used by the Hidden Cobra APT.
Banks in Chile
July 28, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
Additional 55,106 cards are leaked in Chile.
Krungthai Bank (KTB)
July 25, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Computer systems of Kasikornbank (Kbank) and Krungthai Bank (KTB) are compromised, affecting the security of the personal and corporate data of more than 120,000 customers.
Etherscan
July 23, 2018
•[ hack, xss, finance ]
Visitors of the popular Ethereum blockchain explorer Etherscan.io are shown a pop-up message showing "1337" indicating the website has been compromised.
PIR Bank of Russia
July 20, 2018
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Cybercriminals part of the notorious hacking group MoneyTaker attack the PIR Bank of Russia and steal $1M. The hacking is carried out after infiltrating the bank's systems by compromising an old, outdated router. The router was installed at one of the regional branches of the bank.
pigeoncoin
September 26, 2018
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
The developers behind the pigeoncoin cryptocurrency confirm that an unknown attacker successfully took advantage of a bitcoin bug, printing 235 million pigeoncoins worth about $15,000.
C-CEX
September 9, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Cryptocurrency exchange C-CEX is hacked. The attackers are successfully able to withdraw all Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE) from company servers.
NS Bank
August 30, 2018
•[ financial, finance, phishing ]
Researchers from NetScout Arbor reveal the details of a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt Group via spear phishing. One of the targets is NS Bank.
Bank of Spain
August 26, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Hacktivists from Anonymous Catalonia claim to have taken down the website of Bank of Spain.
Banks in Chile
July 25, 2018
•[ hack, leak, finance ]
Hackers from the Shadow Brokers gain access to some 14,000 credit card numbers in Chile and publish them on social media.
Zaif
September 20, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange is hacked, losing a 6.7 billion yen (about $60 million worth of cryptocurrency), including 5,966 bitcoins.
Undisclosed cryptocurrency exchange
August 22, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Kaspersky Lab reveals the details of Operation AppleJeus, an attack against cryptocurrency exchanges carried out via a trojanized cryptocurrency trading application distributing the Fallchill malware.
Securities Investors Association Singapore (SIAS)
July 25, 2018
•[ leak, finance ]
The Securities Investors Association Singapore (SIAS) announces to have suffered a breach. The breach occurred in 2013 and that the NRIC numbers, home addresses, email addresses, mobile and landline numbers of 70,000 people were compromised in the incident.
Boa Vista SCPC
September 4, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Brazilian credit bureau Boa Vista SCPC investigates a possible hack, after a group of hackers called Fatal Error claimed it accessed the database of the company which has more than 350M personal data.
Atlas
August 27, 2018
•[ hack, finance ]
Atlas, a popular Brazilian cryptocurrency investment platform is hacked. The personal information of over 264,000 of its customers is leaked, including 4,500 records that detail users' balances on the platform.
Cosmos Bank
August 11, 2018
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Cyber criminals hack the systems of India's Cosmos Bank and siphon off nearly 944 million rupees ($13.5 million) through simultaneous withdrawals across 28 countries. Unidentified hackers stole customer information through a malware attack on its ATM server.
