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When Digital and Physical Threats Intertwined: The Need for Executive Protection

Executives face growing risks from both digital and physical threats, with online exposure often leading to real-world dangers like harassment or security breaches. Traditional physical security alone is no longer sufficient — organizations must integrate digital executive protection, including threat monitoring, data exposure mitigation, and coordinated response across teams.
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Securing the C-Suite: Advanced Executive Protection

As executive digital footprints grow, security teams face rising challenges in identifying real threats. Learn how evolving online and physical risks make executives prime targets for threat actors. This guide reviews executive threats, why they work, and how to protect against them.
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Dark Web Actors Overwhelmingly Target Card Data, Finance in Q4

Credit unions were the top targeted industry on the Dark Web in Q4 2023, continuing its lead over the historically targeted banking industry for the third consecutive quarter. Financials as a whole continue to be a primary focus of criminal groups on underground channels, with more than 91% of malicious activity directed at either credit unions, banks, financial services, or payment services.Every...
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Social Media Attacks Focus on Financials, Executives in Q4

In Q4, impersonation threats made up more than 45% of total attacks on social media, with the vast majority targeting banking and financial services. Impersonation on social media continues to grow, with threats specifically targeting corporate executives responsible for driving the majority of volume for three consecutive quarters.The average number of social media attacks per business has...
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Social Media Mitigation Best Practices for All Financial Institutions

The financial industry continues to face the highest volume of social media abuse compared to any other sector. In Q3, banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions accounted for nearly 75% of all attacks on social platforms. National banks, in particular, experienced a surge—tripling the attack volume seen by the most-targeted non-financial sector: retail.The most common threats...
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Building Cybersecurity Resilience in Financial Services

Cybersecurity for financial services is a complex, high-stakes challenge. Organizations face a maze of overlapping regulations, relentless threats, and chronic staffing shortages. Despite significant investments and heightened attention, many remain vulnerable to advanced persistent threats, fraud, sophisticated phishing campaigns, and other aggressive tactics targeting PII and sensitive...
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Financial Services: The Top Tools and Tactics Used to Execute Phishing Attacks

According to our latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report, financial institutions have seen a 15.3% increase in phishing attacks, making them the most targeted industry by cybercriminals.This surge highlights the continued value threat actors place on compromised banking credentials, which can be monetized quickly and discreetly.Attack Staging Methods in Financial PhishingThreat actors...
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FBI Warns of Growing Mobile Banking App Threats

With mobile banking usage surging by 50% since early 2020, the FBI has issued a public service announcement warning consumers of increased cyber threats targeting mobile banking apps. This spike is largely attributed to the shift to remote work and social distancing, which has made mobile apps a primary tool for financial transactions.There are two major types of app-based threats to be aware of...
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BankBot Anubis Still a Threat, Gets Upgrade

Over the past few years mobile banking trojans have been a persistent threat.While Windows desktops and laptops once made up the lion's share of Internet traffic, mobile devices (particularly Android) have long since become the most common means of browsing the web.With banking trojans now incorporating such a wide range of malicious functionality, it's hardly surprising they have become a...
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New Variant of BankBot Banking Trojan Ups Ante, Cashes Out on Android Users

A newly observed variant of BankBot has been discovered masquerading as Adobe Flash Player, Avito, and an HD Video Player. This variant, now detected by PhishLabs as BankBot Anubis, was first identified on March 5, 2018. BankBot Anubis takes mobile threats to the next level incorporating ransomware, keylogger abilities, remote access trojan functions, SMS interception, call forwarding, and lock...
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Fraudsters Take Advanced Fee Scams to the Next Level

We’ve all seen them — the outrageous emails offering millions from a mysterious foreign prince in exchange for a “small” fee. These classic advanced fee scams have been around since the early days of the internet, often dressed up with official-sounding language and long email threads to lure victims.But Fortra Brand Protection recently uncovered a new twist: a sophisticated scam built around a...