The FASTCash malware tampers with messages between issuing and acquiring banking domains to turn rejected transactions into approved ones. The malware targets misconfigured implementations of the ISO 8583 financial messaging standard, which allow tampered messages to go undetected. The North Korean hacking group BeagleBoyz, a subset of government-backed group HiddenCobra, has employed the malware in numerous bank attacks worldwide since 2015.
In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe
A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming,
