Banking

Massive Money-Stealing Botnet Suspect Arrested In Russia

A 22-year-old allegedly used 6 million computers to steal £2.9 million, as part of a major botnet operation

13 years ago

NatWest IT Failure Caused By Payments Software Upgrade

RBS says a software upgrade is what has caused so many problems for NatWest customers

13 years ago

Banking Trojans Crack Two-Factor Authentication

The Zeus and SpyEye cyber-criminal toolkits have been modified to automate the process of stealing from online bank accounts that…

13 years ago

Hacker Claims He Stole 50Gb Of Credit Card Details

A former Anonymous member says he hacked 79 banks in 3 months, for the lulz

13 years ago

Silicon Valley Bank Opens London Branch

The bank wants to have 1,500 UK tech start-ups as clients in three years

13 years ago

Hacker Exposes Three Million Iranian Bank Account Details

Iranian man posts debit and credit card details on his blog to highlight security vulnerabilities

13 years ago

Microsoft Raids Hit Zeus Botnets

Operation b71 has brought down two major Zeus botnets but Microsoft warns that the Trojan is not dead

13 years ago

Kaspersky Lab Discovers Invisible Memory-Only Bot

The clever Russian malware hides in RAM and spreads trough banners on news websites

13 years ago

Lloyds Decision To Offshore IT Jobs Labelled ‘Disgraceful’

593 IT jobs are to go at Lloyds, in what is being described as a brutal headcount reduction

13 years ago

Business Intelligence for Financial Services

A key lesson emerging from the recent turmoil in Financial Services (FS) is the importance of information – the need…

13 years ago

MWC 2012: PayPal Criticises NFC Payment Systems

PayPal warns against NFC while Intel gets behind the technology

13 years ago

Barclays Confirms 422 British IT Jobs To Go In Restructuring

Barclays is to axe 422 IT positions in the UK, with a further 200 positions being lost overseas as well

13 years ago

UK Banks Face Simulated Cyber Attack

Banks in the UK are simulating the combined effects of a cyber attack and Olympic gridlock today

13 years ago

Banks Battle Increased Cyber-Attacks

Cyber-criminals are using malware and man-in-the-middle tactics to transfer cash from bank accounts, even with two-factor authentication in place

13 years ago

Two Thirds of Brits Prefer Bank Clicks To Bank Clerks

Research shows that more Brits than ever use online banking with two of three using it at least once a…

13 years ago

RBS Confirms Weekend Online Banking Outage

RBS has confirmed that its online banking service is back and working, after failing at the weekend

13 years ago

Hackers Use Social Tricks To Get Bank Passwords

Auditors at Trace Security used social engineering tactics to obtain sensitive information and infect systems

13 years ago

Illegal Spam Firms Run Like Legitimate Businesses

Spam operations are run like legal business enterprises and rely on banks’ merchant services to function

14 years ago

BlackBerry Hit By Zeus Banking Trojan

Zitmo, a mobile variant of Zeus, is now targeting RIM BlackBerry devices, Trend Micro has confirmed

14 years ago

IBM’s Swift Action Reduces Bank Of China Paper Trail

The Bank of China's London office will elimintate 95 percent of its Swift paper usage thanks to IBM

14 years ago

Santander And Halifax Hit With Christmas Woes

Santander has accidentally sent the wrong statements to thousands of customers, while Halifax's payment system suffered an outage

14 years ago

Zeus Gang Blags £6m From UK Bank Accounts

The Zeus Trojan is rapidly becoming public enemy number one as London police arrest online banking hackers

14 years ago

Mobile Banking Use To Hit 200 Million

The use of mobile devices to carry out banking transactions is booming, Juniper Research has found, in spite of continuing…

14 years ago

Expert Questions HSBC’s Online Banking Security Measures

Introduction of new security software and the decision to allow customer ID's to be saved in the browser have come…

15 years ago