{"id":13703,"date":"2021-03-30T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/30\/fs-isac-report-finds-cybercriminals-and-nation-state-actors-are-converging-increasing-cross-border-and-supply-chain-attacks\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:00:00","slug":"fs-isac-report-finds-cybercriminals-and-nation-state-actors-are-converging-increasing-cross-border-and-supply-chain-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/30\/fs-isac-report-finds-cybercriminals-and-nation-state-actors-are-converging-increasing-cross-border-and-supply-chain-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"FS-ISAC Report Finds Cybercriminals and Nation-State Actors Are Converging, Increasing Cross-Border and Supply Chain Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               Recent incidents underscore need for a trusted conduit between financial services and third parties                            <\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 31 March 2021&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211;<b> <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsisac.com\/\">FS-ISAC<\/a>, the only global&#13;<br \/>\ncyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services,&#13;<br \/>\nannounced today the findings of its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsisac.com\/gio-annualreport-2021?utm_campaign=2021-GIOReport&amp;utm_source=media&amp;utm_medium=PressRelease\">report<\/a>, which found&#13;<br \/>\nthat wittingly or otherwise, nation-states and cybercriminals are leveraging&#13;<br \/>\neach other&#8217;s tools and tactics, leading to an increase in cross-border attacks&#13;<br \/>\ntargeting financial services suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has accelerated digitization, connectivity,&#13;<br \/>\nand the sector&#8217;s interdependence, as demonstrated by recent supply chain incidents.&#13;<br \/>\nIncreasingly, the financial sector needs a trusted conduit of real-time cyber&#13;<br \/>\ninformation between institutions and third parties. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FS-ISAC was the logical host for us to&#13;<br \/>\nbrief the financial services sector to reach a critical mass of institutions&#13;<br \/>\naround the world all at once,&#8221; said <b>Jonathan Yaron, CEO of Accellion<\/b>.&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;This way, we could ensure that the industry received critical and correct&#13;<br \/>\ninformation via a trusted source, enabling it to act quickly to mitigate the&#13;<br \/>\nimpact of the incident.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Organizations&#13;<br \/>\nproperly practicing defense-in-depth with multi-layered controls\u00a0are&#13;<br \/>\nstill\u00a0vulnerable to large-scale and even systemic issues through third&#13;<br \/>\nparty suppliers,&#8221; said <b>J.R. Manes, Global Head of Cyber Intelligence at HSBC<\/b>.&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;The FS-ISAC community provides its members the visibility into emerging&#13;<br \/>\nthreats that could impact customers and business, even when\u00a0they\u00a0are&#13;<br \/>\nnot directly exposed. Ensuring and encouraging the sharing of cyber threat&#13;<br \/>\nintelligence is a vital part of the defense of not only the financial sector,&#13;<br \/>\nbut the whole business ecosystem that runs on top of the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>FS-ISAC&#8217;s report outlines today&#8217;s top threats:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Convergence of nation-states and cybercriminals: <\/b>Nation-state actors&#13;<br \/>\nare leveraging the skills and tools of cyber criminals, either knowingly or&#13;<br \/>\nnot, to enhance their own capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><b>Third-party&#13;<br \/>\nrisk on an upward trend:<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\nSuppliers to financial firms will continue to be lucrative targets for threat&#13;<br \/>\nactors, as shown by three highly visible incidents in the last two quarters.<\/li>\n<li><b>Cross-border&#13;<br \/>\nattacks will increase:<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\nCyber criminals test their attack in one country before hitting multiple continents&#13;<br \/>\nand sub-verticals, as shown by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsisac.com\/intel-brief\">DDoS extortion<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\ncampaign targeting ~100 financial institutions in months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trying to outpace evolving cyber threats\u00a0diverts resources from a&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial firm&#8217;s core business,&#8221; said <b>Steve Silberstein, FS-ISAC CEO.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;As the global fincyber utility, FS-ISAC enables industry-wide cross-border&#13;<br \/>\nsharing to pool resources, expertise, and capabilities to manage cyber risks&#13;<br \/>\nand incident response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>More on the report&#8217;s methodology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fsisac.com\/gio-annualreport-2021?utm_campaign=2021-GIOReport&amp;utm_source=media&amp;utm_medium=PressRelease\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-03-31\/71393\/fs-isac-report-finds-cybercriminals-and-nation-state-actors-are-converging-increasing-cross-border-and-supply-chain-attacks\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent incidents underscore need for a trusted conduit between financial services and third parties SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 31 March 2021&#13; &#8211; FS-ISAC, the only global&#13; cyber intelligence sharing community solely focused on financial services,&#13; announced today the findings of its latest report, which found&#13; that wittingly or otherwise, nation-states and cybercriminals are leveraging&#13; each &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}