On February 4, 2022, researchers reported that the Medusa Android banking Trojan has increased infection rates and the scope of geographic regions targeted. The malware aims to steal online credentials to go on and perform financial fraud. Medusa has begun targeting victims in North America and Europe, using the same distribution service as FluBot malware to carry out their smishing campaigns.
On January 26, 2022, the TeaBot and FluBot banking trojans were detected to be targeting Android devices once again. The banking trojans steal banking, contact, and SMS data from infected machines, and are being dispatched in phishing campaigns.
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On November 18, 2021, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a joint final rule to establish computer security incident notification requirements for banking organisations and their service providers.
On November 18, 2021, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a joint final rule to establish computer security incident notification requirements for banking organisations and their service providers. The rule seeks to provide agencies with early warnings of suspected threats.
In late October 2021, researchers from Cleafy and ThreatFabric discovered a new Android banking Trojan called SharkBot. The trojan tricks targets into downloading malicious apps from Google Play Store and grants itself admin rights, collects keystrokes, intercepts/hides F2A SMS messages, and accesses mobile banking and crypocurrency apps to transfer funds. SharkBot has been detected targeting international banks from the United Kingdom and Italy and five different cryptocurrency services.
On October 29, 2021, the National Bank of Pakistan suffered a destructive cyber attack, which is said to have impacted some of its services including the bank's ATMs, internal network, and mobile apps.
On October 29, 2021, the National Bank of Pakistan suffered a destructive cyber attack, which is said to have impacted some of its services including the bank's ATMs, internal network, and mobile apps. Steps were taken immediately to isolate the incident, and the bank stated that no data was breached and no funds were stolen.
On October 26, 2021, the Nigerian Communications Commission announced the discovery of a new malware, dubbed Flubot, targeting Android devices with fake security updates and application installations. The malware draws fake web views on infected devices, with the goal of stealing personal data, particularly credit card details or online banking credentials.
On October 10, 2021, Pichincha Bank in Ecuador was hit by a cyber attack that disrupted customers' access to bank services, including their online and mobile app tools. The bank stated that they had identified a cybersecurity incident that had partially disabled their services.
In late 2021, a long list of brands and online retailers were infected with the banking Trojan, Ramnit. Ramnit aims to take over targets online accounts to steal their card payment data and has been detected in use since 2010. Ramnit was the top active banking Trojan for 2021.
On September 29, 2021, researchers from Check Point Research discovered a new wave of malicious Android applications targeting Brazilian banking applications, including the Central Bank's Pix payment system.
On September 29, 2021, researchers from Check Point Research discovered a new wave of malicious Android applications targeting Brazilian banking applications, including the Central Bank's Pix payment system. One of the malicious applications contains a never-seen-before functionality which steals victims' money using Pix transactions, dubbed PixStealer.
On September 22, 2021, researchers reported that Android phone banking customers in India were being targeted the Drinik banking trojan malware. The malware stole users' personal data and funds using phishing techniques.
On July 27, 2021, Cleafy researchers reported that users of banking applications in Spain, Poland, Germany, Turkey, the United States, Japan, Italy, Australia, France, and India were being targeted by a botnet campaign dubbed UBEL.
On July 27, 2021, Cleafy researchers reported that users of banking applications in Spain, Poland, Germany, Turkey, the United States, Japan, Italy, Australia, France, and India were being targeted by a botnet campaign dubbed UBEL. UBEL can gain access to sensitive information and exfiltrate it back to a remote server, hiding its presence and achieving persistence. The campaign relied on a botnet created from the Android malware Oscorp. The malware was previously observed abusing accessibility services to hijack user credentials from European banking applications.
On July 10, 2021, Morgan Stanley, the American investment banking giant, reported a data breach tied to zero-day attacks on Accellion's legacy File Transfer Appliance. Attackers stole personal information belonging to its customers by hacking into the Accellion FTA server of its third-party vendor, Guidehouse.
From May to August 2021, researchers from Cyren reported a 300% increase in phishing attacks targeting Chase Bank. The XBALTI phishing kits were designed to mimic the Chase banking portal. Researchers stated that the phishing kits were highly sophisticated and designed to harvest more than just email addresses and passwords, including banking and credit card information, social security numbers, and home addresses.
On May 12, 2021, Sophos, a cybersecurity firm, identified 167 fake Android and iOS financial trading, banking, and cryptocurrency apps being used by hackers to steal money. The attackers used social engineering techniques, counterfeit websites including a fake iOS App Store download page, and an iOS app-testing website to distribute the fake apps to unsuspecting users.
On May 17, 2021, a cybersecurity firm uncovered a new banking trojan family dubbed "Bizarro" that rampantly scaled up its operations from Brazil to Europe. These trojans have been used to try and steal credentials from customers of 70 banks from different European and South American countries.
On March 17, 2021, the database of the card shop Swarmshop was leaked on a rival underground forum. The compromised data contained 623,036 payment-card records, 498 sets of online banking account credentials, 69,592 sets of American Social Security Numbers and Canadian Social Insurance Numbers, and 12,344 records of user data. The leak was discovered on April 8, 2021 by a computer intelligence firm.
Researchers from IBM Trusteer discovered that criminals had been using mobile device emulators to steal millions from European and American banks. The hackers used around 20 emulators to spoof more than 16,000 phones belong to customers with compromised accounts. By entering usernames and passwords through these emulators, hackers were able to initiate fraudulent money orders and siphon money from mobile accounts.
Ghimob, a banking malware originating from Brazil, has recently begun spreading globally. The malware is a fully featured trojan that allows hackers to access the infected device remotely and complete the fraudulent transaction with the victim's smartphone, thereby avoiding anti-fraud behavioral systems run by financail institutions.
On November 23, security researchers became aware of a resurgence in Gootkit infections in Germany. Gootkit is a capable banking trojan designed to steal financially-related information. In this latest campaign, attackers used compromised websites to trick users into downloading malicious files.
On October 14, FireEye reported that FIN11, a financial cybercrime group active since 2016, has recently switched to ransomware as its primary mode of attack. FIN11 has been conducting attacks around the world since 2016. FIN11 campaigns initially focused on entering networks to steal data, with researchers noting that the hacking group commonly deployed BlueSteal, a tool used to steal banking information from Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals.
On September 23, 2020, several Hungarian banking and telecommunication services were disrupted by a powerful DDoS attack launched from computer servers in Russia, China, and Vietnam, telecoms firm Magyar Telekom reported.
On September 23, 2020, several Hungarian banking and telecommunication services were disrupted by a powerful DDoS attack launched from computer servers in Russia, China, and Vietnam, telecoms firm Magyar Telekom reported. The volume of data traffic in the attack was 10 times higher than the amount usually seen in DDoS events, the company said.
On June 22, 2020, researchers identified a new variant of the IcedID banking trojan that uses COVID-19 related phishing lures. This new variant is using steganography to infect the victims and comes equipped with fresh anti-detection capabilities.
EventBot is a mobile-banking Trojan Trojan that targets over 200 financial applications, money-transfer services and cryptocurrency wallets across the US, Europe, and now India. It steals user data from financial applications, reads user SMS messages, and intercepts SMS messages to bypass 2FA.
On April 13, 2020, IBM researchers reported that Spanish banks had been the target of by a Brazilian banking Trojan, Grandoreiro, in a campaign lasting months. The campaign exploits the Coronavirus outbreak by using videos themed on the pandemic that convince users to run a hidden executable.
Grandoreiro is a remote-overlay banking trojan that, upon a user accessing their online banking, can display images to impersonate said bank. This allows attacks to then then move money from the victims accounts. The malware executes upon access to a hardcoded list of entities, mostly local banks.
Operating since April 2020, Turkey Dog activity has been luring unaware Turkish speakers into downloading malicious Android trojans through fake click-baits. The banking trojans, Cerberus and Anubis, have been used to steal user credentials to gain access to bank accounts. 2ff7e9595c
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