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VIRUS IDENTIFICATION Type of virus: targeted attack of increased complexity, Trojan program, malware. What is Metel? Metel is a banking Trojan (also known as Corkow) that was discovered in 2011. Then it was used to attack users of online banking systems. In 2015, the Metel group began to attack...

A new phishing kit allows you to steal your account unnoticed using modern methods. Resecurity specialists have discovered a new V3B phishing kit that targets customers of European banks. According to a report from Resecurity, a group of cybercriminals are selling the V3B phishing kit via...

The National Payment Card System (NPCS) plans to make it paid for banks to provide two-factor customer authentication when paying on the Internet - when it is necessary to confirm the payment with a code from SMS. The commission for the issuer will be 20 kopecks per transaction in any case, and...

The Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) has requested the right to receive photos and videos from banks. The agency hopes to use these materials to combat money withdrawal and terrorist financing (AML/CFT), RBC reports. The agency is primarily interested in materials...

The intelligence services uncovered a group of cybercriminals who defrauded Promsvyazbank, Trust, Uralsib and the credit institution Zenit. 16 people in Moscow organized a cybercriminal group and engaged in online fraud. The group started working with an amount of one million rubles, gradually...

Once again, while withdrawing money from an ATM of one of the Ukrainian banks, I noticed an information message that asked me to make sure that the PIN keyboard matches the image on the screen. After checking the image, I realized that the keyboards are different. I examined the PIN keyboard...

In May of this year, the publishing house Individuum published a book by journalist Daniil Turovsky “Invasion. A Brief History of Russian Hackers." It contains stories from the dark side of the Russian IT industry - about guys who, having fallen in love with computers, learned not just to...

Today in Russia there is a completely normal system of non-cash payments. Of course, the concept of "non-cash" has many synonyms, such as "by bank", etc., but all this is the same essence. In the first part of the article, I will talk a little about the essence of money (what if someone learns...

Payment system MasterCard and several US banks announced the creation of a Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) with a proof-of-concept (PoC) blockchain. The RSN PoC system is expected to leverage the power of shared ledger technology for settlement of tokenized commercial bank assets, wholesale...

June 27, 1967. It was a muggy day. A huge crowd gathered outside the Barclays Bank building in Enfield, North London, to witness the opening ceremony of the world's first automated teller machine (ATM). Despite the heat of 27°C (81°F), all the assembled officials were dressed in classic suits...

In 2017, several European banks updated their mobile apps at once. The reason was a study by the University of Birmingham, whose authors described a common vulnerability to MITM attacks. Later, similar stories happened, including in Russia. However, MITM attacks were rare, and there were few...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI, the Central Bank) intends to allow the country's banks to temporarily block accounts that are used for fraudulent schemes by cybercriminals. As reported by Reuters, citing sources, the regulator is considering such measures due to the growth of online crime in the...

How is the banking Trojan distributed and what does GitLab have to do with it? Visa has warned of an increase in the activity of a new version of JsOutProx malware targeting financial institutions and their customers. The campaign targeted institutions in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle...

Hello! Although there were no such cases specifically in our bank, as a specialist in information security of a credit institution, it was necessary to carefully analyze such incidents in other banks and find ways to counter them. The following is a typical scheme for fraud involving money in...

The LabHost service has become a central tool of cybercriminals in attacks on North American banks, in particular, on Canadian financial institutions. Phishing-as-a-Service (PHaaS) provides attackers with various tools for organizing phishing attacks: from ready-made kits to infrastructure for...

The service's history shows you how to survive crashes and become a market leader. The LabHost service has become a central tool of cybercriminals in attacks on North American banks, in particular, on Canadian financial institutions. Phishing-as-a-Service (PHaaS) provides attackers with...

The Russian authorities are considering new powers for credit institutions in the tax sphere. The Ministry of Finance of Russia has put forward an initiative to oblige banks to constantly monitor the location of customers when they use Internet banking. If it turns out that a person mainly uses...

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The international operation led to arrests of service participants around the world. The US Attorney's Office announced the completion of an international investigation into cybercrime and the activities of the xDedic Marketplace darknet market. According to court documents, the xDedic...

Android users from Southeast Asia tried out the work of the hidden code. Promon has discovered a new malware for Android, called FjordPhantom. The virus uses a unique virtualization tactic to hide from detection by running malicious code in a special container. The essence of the FjordPhantom...