Modern Bank Heists: Attackers Go Beyond Account Takeover
SecurityEditor) • April 13, 2021
Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy, VMware Carbon Black
Brokerage account takeover, supply chain attacks, destructive attacks and those that seek to manipulate time or time stamps are among the latest threats uncovered in the new Modern Bank Heists report authored by Tom Kellermann at VMware Carbon Black. There are two headlines, says Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy. One is we ve seen a dramatic escalation of destructive attacks and counter-incident response. And the other is that cybercriminals and cybercrime cartels have realized that the most significant asset of a financial institution is not wire transfers or the access to capital; it s nonpublic market information.
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DougOlenick) • April 9, 2021 Get Permission
Visa s Payment Fraud Disruption team reports that cybercriminals are increasingly using web shells to establish command and control over retailers servers during payment card skimming attacks. As a result, eSkimming, or digital skimming, is among the top threats to the payments ecosystem, according to the Visa report.
The web shells enable fraudsters conducting digital skimming attacks on e-commerce sites to establish and maintain access to compromised servers, deploy additional malicious files and payloads, facilitate lateral movement within a victim s network and remotely execute commands, Visa says.
The most common methods for deploying a web shell are malicious application plug-ins and PHP code, Visa reports.
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