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The financial sector remains a prime target for cybercriminals, safeguarding not only vast sums of money but also sensitive personal data, payment systems, and economic trust.

Recent reports highlight escalating threats, with 65% of financial organizations hit by ransomware in 2024, the highest rate across industries, while average recovery costs excluding ransoms reached $2.73 million.

Cyberattacks on banks, insurers, and fintech firms have intensified, driven by phishing, ransomware, and data theft. Sandbox analyses indicate that 90% of attacks originate from phishing, underscoring the need for rapid behavioral insights from platforms like ANY.RUN, used by over 15,000 organizations.

Nearly one-third of assaults bypass traditional defenses despite rising security investments, as revealed in Picus Security’s Blue Report, where prevention efficacy hovered around 62-69%. Underground markets listed 14.5 million stolen credit cards in 2024, a 20% year-over-year surge, amplifying risks to transactional integrity.

These trends result in operational downtime, regulatory penalties, and eroded customer confidence, with even minor detection delays proving costly.

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Traditional security operations centers (SOCs) in finance deploy SIEM, EDR, and email gateways, yet struggle with alert fatigue, delayed threat visibility, and manual validation of indicators.

Analysts waste hours cross-referencing IOCs without verdicts, while threat intelligence often arrives post-incident. This prolongs mean time to response (MTTR), elevates costs, and exposes gaps in fast-evolving campaigns targeting payment flows and data repositories.

ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence solutions address these pain points by delivering sandbox-powered feeds and lookups for proactive defense. Threat Intelligence Feeds, drawn from a community of 600,000 professionals analyzing daily threats in interactive sandboxes, provide contextual IOCs—IPs, domains, URLs—for seamless SIEM/SOAR integration via APIs and STIX/TAXII.

This yields 36% higher detection rates, reduced false positives, and faster triage, enabling early blocking of finance-specific risks like Lumma Stealer campaigns observed in banking sectors across Europe and the US.

Threat Intelligence Lookup offers instant verdicts on over 40 IOC types, slashing MTTR by 21 minutes through full attack chain context. For instance, querying “familyriwo.su” reveals ties to active stealers, while filtering by industry (“Finance”), country (“GB”), and threat (“phishing”) exposes real-time UK phishing flows for threat hunting.

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This shifts SOCs from reactive mode to hunting hidden patterns, enhancing rules and coverage before alerts trigger.

Integrating these tools fosters business resilience: lower breach probabilities, compliance with PCI DSS and DORA, operational efficiencies, and cost savings via minimized forensics. Financial firms avoid disruptions, fines, and trust erosion, proving threat intelligence’s ROI in preserving revenue amid relentless sieges.

ANY.RUN’s ecosystem, including malware sandboxes for Windows, Linux, and Android, empowers analysts worldwide to maintain impenetrable postures.

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