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The cyber security threat landscape in financial services

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Gary Meshell, WW Leader Financial Services, IBM Security, opened his IBM Think 2019 talk, How Financial Services Companies Should Respond to Cyber Security Attacks with a bold assertion and truism. IBM and TD Bank jointly developed cyber security incident response solution for the financial services industry.

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Experts: US House Examines Legislative Actions To Combat Cybercriminals

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But Kellerman and other security experts advocated at the hearing for legislative measures, such as modernizing anti-money laundering (AML) and forfeiture rules and moving the Secret Service to the Treasury Department, to help combat the threat.

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FBI Charges Russian National With Running Online Hacker Marketplace

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A Russian national believed to be behind the Deer.io was first exposed as a nest of cybercrime activity in a now removed Digital Shadows report from 2016, according to ZDNet , and those in-tune with cyber-security issues were not shocked to hear of Firsov’s arrest. He was active on cybercrime forums, advertising Deer.io

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Leader Of Russian Cybercrime Ring Pleads Guilty

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Using the slogan, “In Fraud We Trust,” the group directed traffic and potential purchasers to sites of its members, which served as online conduits to traffic in stolen identification, financial and banking information, malware and other illicit goods, according to the complaint. In April, a joint study by the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

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State-Backed Hackers Playing On COVID-19 Fears, US And UK Warn

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The amount of fraud , scams and misinformation amid the coronavirus pandemic has spread widely in the past month. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to roil the U.S. and the U.K., a wave of new cyberattacks appears to be taking advantage of the situation in both countries, according to a Reuters report.

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British Parliament Hit By Laser-Focused Cyber Attack

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With this cyber attack coming just one month after a ransomware infiltration into the country’s health service, the House of Commons is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to put together a new cyber security system.

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Hackers Strike New Zealand's Central Bank

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The hackers breached security at "a third-party file-sharing service," the central bank stated in a news release. Adrian Orr said in a prepared statement: "We are working closely with domestic and international cyber security experts and other relevant authorities as part of our investigation and response to this malicious attack.