Two U.S. banks say they are investigating data breaches targeting their customers’ information. “We have been managing an incident involving data extracted from a third party vendor,” Citizens Bank said in a statement Tuesday (April 21). “For Citizens, most of this was masked test data, although a limited set...
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Regula’s Henry Patishman The cybersecurity arms race, true to its name, is turning into a sprint. Malware evolves by the hour, ransomware syndicates operate like multinational firms, and state-backed actors are continually probing and even intruding across the edges...
Federal regulators say they’ve temporarily halted an operation that allegedly tricks consumers seeking health insurance. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday (April 22) that a federal court in Florida had halted this operation, which the watchdog accused of impersonating the government and large insurance carriers. The goal...
Another decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol has been the target of a hack. Volo Protocol said Wednesday (April 22) that a breach had drained around $3.5 million in digital assets from its vaults. “The ~$28M in TVL across all other Volo vaults is safe,” the company said...
Financial regulators continue to voice unease about potential cyberthreats from Anthropic’s Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) model. The latest concerns come from the Asia-Pacific region, Reuters reported Monday (April 20), where regulators said they were tracking the development and potential implications of Mythos. Anthropic said earlier...
Cybercriminals ranging from state actors to industrialized ransomware syndicates are converging on the same strategic truth: the shortest path into a target is often through the digital relationships that help the target function. The center of gravity in enterprise cybersecurity is no longer the corporate...
Banks are reportedly increasing their efforts to defend themselves against cyberattacks amid new technological breakthroughs. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (April 20), banks including JPMorgan Chase, Lloyds and Santander are taking steps to protect their systems against these threats. “More is changing now and faster than we have...
Government officials and bankers outside the United States are concerned that they may not receive the same information-sharing as their American counterparts when it comes to Anthropic’s Mythos artificial intelligence (AI) model, Bloomberg reported Thursday (April 16). It is not known how much detail Anthropic is sharing...
The way people find information online has shifted. Typed search queries are giving way to algorithmically curated feeds. Google Discover, the personalized content feed used by hundreds of millions, has become a primary entry point for news and purchasing decisions worldwide. That shift has opened...