Australian consumer lender Latitude Financial Services anticipates its spring cybersecurity incident will cost it up to AU$105 million, which includes a five-week period during which debt collection systems were severely affected by the attack. Hackers demanded extortion from the non-bank creditor after stealing data pertaining to 14 million customers, including nearly 8 million Australian and…

There’s significant variation in DevOps maturation and security integration across the financial services, government, retail, telecom, and technology industries, according to Puppet’s report based on nearly 3,000 responses. “Integrating security into your DevOps practices can be challenging, but when done correctly is proven to pay off. Security should not be an afterthought; it must be…

Attackers Use Google Cloud to Target US, UK Banks

A malicious email campaign has been found abusing a Google Cloud Storage service to host a payload sent to employees of financial services organizations, Menlo Labs researchers report. The threat appears to have been active in the US and UK since August 2018. Victims receive emails containing links to archive files; researchers say all instances…