Daily Cyber Insights - Iain Fraser | Accredited Cybersecurity Journalist & Authority Writer

Enemy at the Gates: Analyzing Attacks on Financial Services - Akamai Syndicated By: Iain Fraser Cyber PRWire - Gibraltar IainFraser.net/PRWire The latest State of the Internet report by Akamai  highlights their research findings on the growing risk exposures of financial services. Financial services is among the industries that have been the heaviest hit by  cybercrime — from the heyday of the Zeus and other banking trojans to Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, modern phishing attacks, and ransomware. FinServ  is a vital sector that plays a major role not only in the lives of people, but also in the  global economy.  Any disruption or downtime of financial services carries serious implications, and the sensitive data these organizations hold can be turned into a valuable commodity. Attackers, therefore, see FinServ as a lucrative target and levy a wide range of attacks against them, from newly discovered zero-day vulnerabilities to tried-and-true phis...