Unnamed Philippine bank
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
The Philippines National Bureau of Investigation has arrested four Nigerian nationals for alleged involvement in a syndicate that hacks and siphons funds from banks. The fraudsters' were found after hacking into a Philippine banks and transferring P100 million to a different account.
Essex Region Conservation Authority (ERCA)
September 4, 2020
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
The Essex Region Conservation Authority (ERCA) loses $300,000 to a phishing scam.
Steve Fisher
September 4, 2020
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
An Australian homebuyer, Steve Fisher, had a $90,000 house payment intercepted by hackers and transferred to a different account.
PupBox
September 2, 2020
•[ financial, retail ]
Petco Health and Wellness Company subsidiary PupBox, Inc. was victim of a data breach that resulted in the exposure of payment card information of tens of thousands of customers.
Caiway
August 28, 2020
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Caiway is one of more than a dozen European ISPs whose DNS infrastructure is the target of a DDoS attack. The attackers demanded a Bitcoin payment to stop the attack.
FreedomNet
August 28, 2020
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
FreedomNet is one of more than a dozen European ISPs whose DNS infrastructure is the target of a DDoS attack. The attackers demanded a Bitcoin payment to stop the attack.
Delta
August 28, 2020
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Delta is one of more than a dozen European ISPs whose DNS infrastructure is the target of a DDoS attack. The attackers demanded a Bitcoin payment to stop the attack.
Online
August 28, 2020
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Online.nl is one of more than a dozen European ISPs whose DNS infrastructure is the target of a DDoS attack. The attackers demanded a Bitcoin payment to stop the attack.
Tweak
August 28, 2020
•[ financial, ddos, technology ]
Tweak.nl is one of more than a dozen European ISPs whose DNS infrastructure is the target of a DDoS attack. The attackers demanded a Bitcoin payment to stop the attack.
Venmo
August 27, 2020
•[ financial, ddos, finance ]
Venmo is the victim of a Ddos attack. The attackers are demanding a Bitcoin payment to stop the attacks.
Two unnamed cryptocurrency exchanges
August 27, 2020
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
The U.S. Justice Department today filed a civil forfeiture complaint aiming to seize control of 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korean hackers in attacks against two unnamed cryptocurrency exchanges.
Santander
August 19, 2020
•[ financial, misconfiguration, finance ]
Tens of suspects have been arrested for exploiting a glitch in the software of Santander ATMs to cash-out more money than was stored on cards.
Tennessee State Univesity
August 17, 2020
•[ financial, insider, education ]
A former admissions worker at Tennessee State University (TSU) was sentenced to more than 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to student loan, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was arrested for managing an elaborate scheme to steal and divert $84,506 in student loans into a bank account set up using a false name and Social Security number.
Virtu Financial
August 10, 2020
•[ financial, phishing, finance ]
High-speed trading firm Virtu Financial says it lost $6.9 million in a business email compromise scam in May.
Interactive Data
August 6, 2020
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
Interactive Data, a data broker, is hacked and fuels fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
August 4, 2020
•[ hack, financial ]
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington reported a hack that drained $7.5 million from its endowment fund and funneled the money into international accounts.
2gether
July 31, 2020
•[ hack, financial, finance ]
2gether reveals a cyberattack in which roughly 1.2 million in cryptocurrency has been stolen from cryptocurrency investment accounts.
The Bank of Ireland
July 28, 2020
•[ financial, social, finance ]
One of Ireland's largest banks, Bank of Ireland, has been fined almost 1.7 million after regulators discovered it had failed to inform financial regulators and the police after a fraudster tricked them into transferring funds from a client's account.
JM Bullion
July 17, 2020
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Gold seller JM Bullion was the victim of a MageCart-style attack for five months.
Argenta
July 13, 2020
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
Antwerp-based savings bank Argenta shuts down 143 ATM machines after falling victim to what is believed to be Belgium's first jackpotting attacks.
