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| Oct 22, 2025 | Nigeria's Digital Payment Boom Faces Rising Cybersecurity Threats | The NIBSS Annual Fraud Report showed that in 2023 alone, attempted fraud rose by 45 per cent, with mobile channels and online platforms being the most exploited mode.
Nigeria has, in recent years, become one of Africa's digital payments pow... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Report: DDoS Attacks Are Hammering Financial Firms | Financial firms are facing a surge in highly targeted and sophisticated DDoS attacks, with new research revealing that threat actors are severely disrupting business operations, eroding profitability, and undermining customer trust.
The lat... |
| Jul 26, 2024 | Bridging the Cybersecurity Divide: The Rise of Public-Private Partnerships in APAC | In the digital age, cybersecurity is a battleground. Threats loom large, and the stakes are high. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is feeling the heat. Ransomware attacks and state-sponsored cyber threats are on the rise. Governments are scra... |
| Jul 23, 2024 | Cyber Security Public-Private Partnerships Are Taking Off in APAC | APAC governments are partnering more closely with private-sector organisations and cyber security tech providers as part of public-private partnership style arrangements. These collaborations can include threat intelligence sharing, cyber c... |
| May 6, 2024 | Crypto Gets Another 'Neighborhood Watch' to Guard Against Hacks | The cryptocurrency industry, for years plagued by hacks and other malfeasance, has a new group dedicated to cleaning things up, headed by cybersecurity veteran Justine Bone.
Bone is the executive director of Crypto ISAC, the industry's firs... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Why the financial services industry has to start future-proofing their operations | The digital revolution continues at pace. Yet, whilst many industries are looking to harness the transformative impact of AI and other innovative tech, there are many firms in financial services that are simply unprepared and unable to capi... |
| Mar 27, 2024 | NEW CYBER THREATS TO CHALLENGE FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR IN 2024 | Annual FS-ISAC report predicts increased misinformation campaigns and other cyber threats during a "Super Election" year
RESTON, Va., March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- FS-ISAC, the member-driven, not-for-profit organization that adva... |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Report: DDoS Attacks on Financial Services Industry Up 154% | Not-for-profit cybersecurity organisation FS-ISAC and Edinburgh-based cloud firm Akamai Technologies, have released new research on the surge of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks threatening the financial services sector and its ... |
| May 7, 2023 | The Disconnect on Undersea Cable Security | Editor’s Note: The fiber-optic submarine cable sector is a vital, but often ignored, part of the world’s critical infrastructure. Many members of Congress and the U.S. government, however, see the risks to subsea cables quite differently th... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Financial Sector Sees 22% YoY Rise in DDoS Attacks, Warns FS-ISAC Report | John Lopez, Tech Times 31 January 2023, 01:01 pm
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have recently been a growing concern for the financial sector.
A Bloomberg report points out that DDoS attacks targeting financial institutions ha... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | New Report Finds Increase in DDoS Attacks Targeting the Financial Services Industry | FS-ISAC, the member-driven, not-for-profit organization that advances cybersecurity and resilience in the global financial system, and Akamai Technologies, Inc., the cloud company that powers and protects life online, released new research ... |
| May 3, 2022 | Spike in destructive attacks, ransomware boosts banks’ cybersecurity spending in 2022 | The news: Banks are doubling down on their security budgets this year to protect against a spike in destructive attacks, ransomware, and “island hopping”—a term describing the process of undermining a company's cyber defenses by going after... |
| Mar 10, 2022 | FS-ISAC Report Finds Global Cyber Threats Accelerate as Cybercriminals and Nation-State Actors Converge and Collaborate | Third-party risk, zero-day vulnerability exploits, and ransomware will remain at the forefront of the cyber threats facing financial institutions in 2022
RESTON, Va., March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FS-ISAC, the only global cyber intelligenc... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | FS-ISAC Launches Program to Bolster the Financial Sector's Supply Chain Security | RESTON, Va. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FS-ISAC, the only global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services, announced today the launch of its Critical Providers Program designed to str... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | More Finance Companies Sharing Intelligence to Fight Cybercrime | The growing threat of cybercrime has driven finance firms to increase intelligence sharing by 60%, new research has revealed.
According to cyber intelligence services cyber intelligence group FS-ISAC, the growth was seen among its member fi... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | FS-ISAC Report Finds Cybercriminals and Nation-State Actors Are Converging, Increasing Cross-Border and Supply Chain Attacks | Recent incidents underscore need for a trusted conduit between financial services and third parties
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Media OutReach – 31 March 2021 – FS-ISAC, the only global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financi... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | What’s Good for Litigation Isn’t Necessarily Good for Cybersecurity | When Guo Wengui fled to the United States from China in 2015, he hired the Clark Hill law firm to assist him in his bid for political asylum. In 2017, unknown parties hacked Clark Hill’s computer systems and Guo’s personal information was p... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | More than 100 Financial Services Firms Hit with DDoS Extortion Attacks | Industry-Wide Cross Border Cyber Intelligence Sharing Mitigated Impact
SINGAPORE – Media Outreach – 10 February 2021 – FS-ISAC,
the only global cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on
financial services, announced today that ... |
| Oct 12, 2020 | Microsoft Takes Action to Disrupt Botnet and Combat Ransomware | Trickbot, one of the world’s most infamous botnets, was disrupted through a court order Microsoft obtained as well as technical action
The disruption of Trickbot, which has infected over a million computing devices around the world since la... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Get Ready For Deepfakes To Be Used In Financial Scams | Last month, scammers hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama and dozens of other public figures to trick victims into sending money. Thankfully, this brazen act of digital impersonation only fooled a few hundred peopl... |
| Oct 3, 2018 | Banking on Cooperation: The U.S. Government and the Finance Industry Need to Work Together to Defend the Financial Sector from Cyber Threats | The private sector—which owns and operates the vast majority of U.S. critical infrastructure in cyberspace—and the U.S. government are in lockstep that cyber threats to critical infrastructure have national-security consequences. What more,... |
| Jan 3, 2018 | Assessing the Bipartisan Secure Elections Act | On Dec. 21, all eyes were on the Republican bill to cut taxes. Yet a bipartisan group of six senators also had their eyes on the far less sexy (but still important!) topic of election hacking. They quietly introduced a bill called the Secur... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | Flexera Software and Financial Services Information Sharing & Analysis Centre (FS-ISAC) Jointly Deliver Software Vulnerability Intelligence to Financial, Legal Services, Utilities and Oil & Gas Industries | Over 1,700 member organisations worldwide gain timely, accurate vulnerability alerts on industry-critical applications and systems
Maidenhead, UK. – March 28, 2017 – Flexera Software, the leading provider of Software Vulnerability Managemen... |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Giuliani announces he’ll be Trump’s czar for the cyber thing | Rudy Giuliani explains the cyber.
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| Dec 2, 2016 | FS-ISAC and MAS Establish APAC Intelligence Centre For Analysing Cyber Threat Information | The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that they will collaborate to establish an Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Intelligence and Analysis Centre to enc... |
| Nov 16, 2016 | Singapore’s FinTech Journey – Where We Are, What Is Next | More than 11,000 participants from more than 50 countries attending one or more of the many events lined up over these five days of Singapore Fintech Festival.
Remarks at Singapore FinTech Festival – FinTech Conference. Singapore Expo by Ra... |
| Sep 30, 2016 | So now we have a federal CISO | Jeff Williams Contributor
Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast.
So now we have a federal CISO (Brigadier General [retired] Gregory J. Touhill) as part of the... |
| Sep 6, 2016 | No, DHS is Not Going to "Take Over" the Electoral System | There is much, of course, to be said about the reported Russian intrusion into various aspects of our electoral system. From the hack of the DNC and DCCC to the apparent intrusion into state electoral databases to a broad disinformation cam... |
| Mar 29, 2015 | Crossing the Cybersecurity Trust Chasm | Deepak Jeevankumar Contributor
Deepak Jeevankumar is an enterprise IT investor at General Catalyst Partners where he has a wide range of investments in cybersecurity, big data and storage startups.
Editor’s Note: Deepak Jeevankumar is an en... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Facebook, the security company | Facebook Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan says that PrivateCore is a "perfect fit" for the social media company.
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| Mar 26, 2012 | Microsoft uses racketeering law to seize servers, take down botnets | reader comments 51 with 37 posters participating
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On Friday, armed with a federal warrant and backed by U.S. Marshals, Microsoft employees raided web hosting centers in Scra... |
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Risk mitigation for quantum computing starts with a strong encryption plan | What we’re watching: Though quantum computing may be years away from being fully operational, financial institutions (FIs) must begin preparing for its risks now. Here’s what banks can do today to make sure their data is safe in the future,... |
| Spike in destructive attacks, ransomware boosts banks’ cybersecurity spending in 2022 | The news: Banks are doubling down on their security budgets this year to protect against a spike in destructive attacks, ransomware, and “island hopping”—a term describing the process of undermining a company's cyber defenses by going after... |
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Banks face a growing list of cyber risks, but also growing cyber insurance premiums | The news: Banks and financial institutions face ever-evolving cyber risks, but paying for cyber insurance might not be part of their mitigation plans, per American Banker.
Greatest risks to banks: A report from the Financial Services Inform... |
