Tag: Cybercrime

Limor Kessem studied microbiology in school and planned to open a naturopathy clinic. She's now one of IBM Security's top cyber intelligence experts and a dedicated role model for women in security.

The X-Force research team investigated the IcedID Trojan's two-step injection attack that enables it to steal access credentials and payment card data from e-commerce customers in North America.

An analysis of more than 4.4 million malware samples showed botnets were responsible for crypto-mining at least 4.3 percent of Monero over a 12-year period.

Researchers have discovered evidence of a threat group named London Blue, a U.K.-based collective that focuses on CFOs at mortgage companies, accounting firms and some of the world's largest banks.

Since governments have so many potential attack vectors to manage, government cybersecurity professionals need clear processes, procedures and authority to harden vulnerable environments.

IBM X-Force's top security predictions for 2019 cover a range of potential attack schemes and consequences, from industry-specific prognostications to a rapid expansion of emerging criminal schemes.

In 2017 and 2018, threat actors used a toolkit called KoffeyMaker in multiple black box ATM attacks targeting Eastern European financial institutions.

The majority of financial cybercrime risks can be mitigated with continued user education and by placing the right controls on user devices to help protect against malware.

With many enterprises unable to fill open roles for cybersecurity professionals, how can organizations boost collaboration to share security data and drive better outcomes?

In this first article of a two-part series, IBM X-Force exposes some of its research on the typical malware and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used in Brazilian financial cybercrime.