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How Equifax is using AI to elevate its cybersecurity

The credit bureau’s CISO explains how AI is helping the company defend against attacks, secure code, and accelerate fixes — and why security fundamentals and controls are more vital than ever.

By Maria Korolov

Aug 25, 20267 mins

Financial Services IndustrySecurity InfrastructureSecurity Operations Center

Articles

Malicious npm packages use Ethereum blockchain for malware delivery

Ethereum smart contracts used to hide URL to secondary malware payloads in an attack chain triggered by a malicious GitHub repo.

By Lucian Constantin

Sep 3, 2025 4 mins

CryptocurrencyMalware

Behind the Coinbase breach: Bribery emerges as enterprise threat

Coinbase’s breach shows how bribery schemes — long used for SIM swaps — can be a potent enterprise attack vector. Experts urge security leaders to add bribery training and red-teaming to their cyber defense toolkits.

By Cynthia Brumfield

Aug 26, 2025 9 mins

CyberattacksFinancial Services IndustryRansomware

Munich Reinsurance unites global security teams to boost resilience, cut costs

Faced with scattered security teams, Munich Re Group merged incident response, threat intelligence, and threat hunting into one operation.

By Shane O'Neill for CSO Events

Aug 25, 2025 7 mins

IT LeadershipInsurance IndustrySecurity

The age of infostealers is here. Is your financial service secure?

Infostealers are silently targeting financial data; institutions must adopt proactive, modern cybersecurity to safeguard client trust and digital assets.

By Solomon Adote

Aug 5, 2025 7 mins

Access ControlAuthenticationEncryption

New Ruling Sets Security Incident Notification Standards for Financial Organizations

Federal Government Prioritizes Incident Notifications to Ensure Stability of U.S. Financial System.

Jan 21, 2022 5 mins

BankingIT Leadership

Ransomware attacks: The evolving extortion threat to US financial institutions

Ransomware isn’t just locking systems — it’s weaponizing fear, shame and time to bleed US banks dry. It's pay up, or get exposed.

By Ankit Gupta

Aug 4, 2025 17 mins

BankingCyberattacksRansomware

North Korean crypto thieves deploy custom Mac backdoor

Researchers warn that recent attack campaigns against Web3 and crypto startups by a North Korean APT group have leveraged a new family of malware written in niche programming language Nim.

By Lucian Constantin

Jul 2, 2025 5 mins

CryptocurrencyEndpoint ProtectionMalware

Akamai proposes tool to defang cryptomining botnets

XMRogue would let defenders submit invalid mining job results from infected computers to get a proxy server banned from the botnet.

By Howard Solomon

Jun 25, 2025 6 mins

BotnetsCryptocurrencyCybercrime

You’re always a target, so it pays to review your cybersecurity insurance

Not only does an annual insurance review ensure compliance with policy requirements, it can kick off a more thorough review of your security posture that goes far beyond requirements for coverage.

By Susan Bradley

Apr 11, 2025 7 mins

CSO and CISOInsurance IndustrySecurity Practices

AI can kill banks: Cybersecurity’s disinformation gap

Panicking bank customers is neither difficult nor expensive, as a recent study shows, suggesting that CISOs must also keep disinformation campaigns in mind.

By Florian Maier

Feb 24, 2025 2 mins

Financial Services IndustryGenerative AISecurity

CIOs and CISOs grapple with DORA: Key challenges, compliance complexities

Now in force, DORA has proved challenging for many IT leaders to achieve compliance, particularly around third-party providers, suppliers, and subcontractors.

By Patrizia Licata

Feb 7, 2025 13 mins

CIOCSO and CISOLaws and Regulations

Midsize firms universally behind in slog toward DORA compliance

The deadline for implementing the EU’s DORA has expired. How far have financial service providers come? Not very far, according to a recent survey.

By Julia Mutzbauer

Jan 20, 2025 4 mins

ComplianceFinancial Services IndustryLaws and Regulations

EU’s DORA could further strain cybersecurity skills gap

As the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act comes into force, financial sector firms, especially smaller ones, may face resources constraints, adding pressure on security talent markets.

By John Leyden

Jan 17, 2025 9 mins

ComplianceFinancial Services IndustryLaws and Regulations

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Articles

Malicious npm packages use Ethereum blockchain for malware delivery

Behind the Coinbase breach: Bribery emerges as enterprise threat

Munich Reinsurance unites global security teams to boost resilience, cut costs

The age of infostealers is here. Is your financial service secure?

New Ruling Sets Security Incident Notification Standards for Financial Organizations

Ransomware attacks: The evolving extortion threat to US financial institutions

North Korean crypto thieves deploy custom Mac backdoor

Akamai proposes tool to defang cryptomining botnets

You’re always a target, so it pays to review your cybersecurity insurance

AI can kill banks: Cybersecurity’s disinformation gap

CIOs and CISOs grapple with DORA: Key challenges, compliance complexities

Midsize firms universally behind in slog toward DORA compliance

EU’s DORA could further strain cybersecurity skills gap

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