Swift launches AI-powered fraud detection service
Swift announced that it is rolling out new AI-enhanced fraud detection to help the global payments industry step up its defence as bad actors grow increasingly sophisticated. …
Top threats for the financial sector
The potential financial, operational, and reputational impact of ransomware makes it the top threat facing financial services organizations, according to a report from …
Financial institutions can strengthen cybersecurity with SWIFT’s CSCF v2021
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) has introduced an updated set of baseline customer security controls that all of its users must …
Combating the virtual and physical threats banks face
The banking sector has always been at the center of criminal attention. Today, banks must contend with near-constant cyber attacks from organized criminal gangs, as well as …
What happens to funds once they have been stolen in a cyberattack?
SWIFT and BAE Systems published a report that describes the complex web of money mules, front companies and cryptocurrencies that criminals use to siphon funds from the …
Russian, Indian banks lose millions to hackers
The Russian central bank’s Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team (FinCERT) disclosed on Friday that hackers compromised a computer at a Russian bank and used …
MoneyTaker’s stealthy hacking spree spread from US to Russia
A stealthy group of Russian-speaking hackers has been targeting financial organizations (banks, credit unions, lenders) in the US and Russia, stealing money and documentation …
SWIFT systems of three Indian banks compromised to create fake trade documents
Since last year’s revelation that attackers have compromised SWIFT software of Bangladesh’s central bank and used it to perform fraudulent transfers worth tens of …
SWIFT warns of new attacks, Bangladesh Bank heist linked to Sony hack
SWIFT, the organization that provides banks with a secure network for sending and receiving information about financial transactions, has sent out a warning about a malware …
Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software with bespoke malware
Bit by bit, indications about how the attackers who targeted Bangladesh’s central bank managed to take off with some $80 milllion (of the nearly $1 billion they aimed …