Dark Web-leaked banking credentials leap 129 percent

A new report into the financial services threat landscape shows that there has been a huge increase in the number of banking credential leaks, while instances of compromised credit cards increased by 212 percent year-on-year. The report from threat protection platform IntSights reveals many of the leaked credentials came from the Collection #1 database of over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords released onto the Dark Web in January this year. Financial services organizations were targeted in 25.7 percent of all malware attacks last year, more than any of the other 27 industries tracked. While financial… [Continue Reading]