Method used in European bank breach ties attack to FIN7 group

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FIN7 is known for primarily targeting payment-card and other financial data using the Carbanak backdoor

Members of the cybercriminal group FIN7 could have been behind the network breach at an Eastern European bank last year, a new report by researchers from Bitdefender suggests. In 2018, the compu...

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