Risk & Compliance

22 May 20 @ 09:32

Researchers are reported to be analysing EventBot, a new strain of Android malware that does not yet exist in the wild. Cybereason researchers did this by observing submissions to virus... read more

20 May 20 @ 10:55

The 2020 Identity Fraud Report reveals financial institutions’ methods to identify and respond to fraud are no match for criminals’ high-tech schemes to hijack consumer accounts. Fraud losses grew 15%... read more

14 May 20 @ 12:04

Diebold Nixdorf has succumbed to a ProLock ransomware attack that is reported to have disrupted some operations. First reported by Krebsonsecurity, the ransomware attack struck the company April 25 and... read more

16 Apr 20 @ 10:29

When hackers silently forced their way into the computer network Finastra in mid-March, the company was focused on developing emergency plans for operating amid the emerging COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Moving... read more

07 Apr 20 @ 12:06

Marriott International has sadly had to admit that it has suffered a second data breach following the earlier admission in 2018. According to an incident notification published on their website, the company spotted... read more

06 Apr 20 @ 12:27

COVID-19 is forcing millions of employees to work from home. This means countless organisations are faced with a unique challenge: how to keep as many business-critical functions running as possible... read more

31 Mar 20 @ 12:50

A growing number of banks and processors are choosing to adopt a cloud architecture for their payment solution. This is especially relevant for greenfield projects where a company launches a... read more

20 Mar 20 @ 13:29

Payment card fraud, arguably one of the most straightforward approaches to financially motivated crime, persists in the face of ongoing anti-fraud efforts from regulators, financial institutions, and retailers. Carding, as... read more

19 Mar 20 @ 10:46

Throughout the past two decades corporates have swiftly transitioned from traditional linear business models to platform based as the demand for quality product outlay in record time escalates. With platform-based... read more

02 Mar 20 @ 17:07

A group of Europe’s largest and most important financial infrastructures, members of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures (ECRB), chaired by the European Central Bank (ECB), launched... read more

21 Feb 20 @ 12:25

The severity of cyber-breaches and cyber crime has become more and more intense in recent years. As a result, security experts at Specops Software sought to find out which (Western)... read more

19 Feb 20 @ 10:10

According to PwC’s 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, 61% of banks across the globe experienced an increased volume of external fraud in 2018, with 59% stating that the... read more