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The most secure commercial


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off ering tools and make a heist.


ransomware to make a heist.


Finanzmarkt RANSO


SINCE MARCH OF THIS YEAR, THE VERY APTLY NAMED ROBIN BANKS platform has been known to be off ering phishing-as-a-service kits to cyber criminals planning to access individual’s fi nancial information in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. In July, cyber security fi rm IronNet reported that a month earlier the Robin Banks platform was used in a large campaign to try to obtain the credentials and fi nancial information pertaining to


BRIEF RANSOMWARE GROUPS


According to Abnormal Security, who are email protection specialists, fi ve groups were behind more than half of all ransomware attacks over the past two years. In Abnormal’s “The Evolution of


Ransomware: Victims, Threat Actors and What to Expect in 2022” report it found that more than half of victims were in the USA. Abnormal


Citibank customers. The tools that are on sale by Robin Banks are openly advertised as being useful for attacking the likes of Bank of America, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank in Australia, Lloyds Bank and Wells Fargo, a whole range of fi nancial institutions. In July 2022, the Bank of Canada published a Staff Working Paper entitled, “Cyber Security and Ransomware in Financial Markets”. The paper concludes that ransomware attacks are more successful


The top three most successful ransomware attack vectors were email, web browsers via a computer and people’s own mobile devices


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