Lloyds Bank
January 23, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The Financial Times reveals that Lloyds Bank has been targeted by a large scale DDoS attack over the past two weeks. Two crooks claims responsibility for the attack.
XP Investimentos SA
January 23, 2017
•[ hack, finance ]
Hackers who stole data from 29,000 clients of XP Investimentos SA allegedly tried to get the Brazilian independent securities firm to pay 22.5 million reais ($7.1 million) to keep the security breach secret.
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.
DRI Title & Escrow
December 28, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
The Dark Overlord claims to have hacked DRI Title & Escrow and leaks some internal data.
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.
Summit Reinsurance Services Inc.
December 16, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Personal Information of about 1000 Black Hawk College employees and their dependents could have been compromised in a hack of Summit Reinsurance Services Inc., a former insurance provider's server.
Undisclosed Ukrainian banks
December 15, 2016
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
ESET reports that BlackEnergy, the same group who targeted Ukrainian utilities last December has been using the TeleBots malware against Ukrainian banks in the last month.
VTB
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
State-Owned Russian Bank VTB reveals to have been targeted by hackers with a DDoS attack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Real Estate Mogul
September 6, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2016, the real estate investment site Real Estate Mogul had a Mongo DB instance compromised and 5GB of data downloaded by an unauthorised party. The data contained real estate listings including addresses and the names, phone numbers and 308k unique email addresses of the sellers. Real Estate Mogul was advised of the incident in September 2018 and stated that they "found no instance of user account credentials like usernames and passwords nor billing information within this file".
