Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Midmarket security leaders aren't as secure as they think, says Intruder's report Partner Content The midmarket matters. JP Morgan estimates approximately 300,000 organizations generating $13T in annual revenue. Yet they occupy an awkward position in the security landscape. They're large enough to be attractive targets with complex digital estates, significant revenue, and valuable data, but not large enough to have the headcount, budget maturity, or tooling sophistication of an enterprise security team.…

Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog.…

The financial sector is adept at balancing risk and opportunity. Adversarial AI is its next big challenge Partner content From the use of ATMs to online banking, the financial services sector has always been at the forefront of technology. Now, it's leading the charge in AI. In their third annual survey of financial institutions the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority found 75% of companies already using AI with another 10% planning to do so over the next three years.…

Cloud storage giant lawyers up against infosec house Analysis Hudson Rock, citing legal pressure from Snowflake, has removed its online report that claimed miscreants broke into the cloud storage and analytics giant's underlying systems and stole data from potentially hundreds of customers including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank.…

Follows similar efforts from the SEC and DHS in recent months The US has approved mandatory data breach reporting requirements that impose a 30-day deadline for non-banking financial organizations to report incidents.…

Operators stay ahead of defenders with new access methods and C2 infrastructure The Qbot malware operation – which started more than a decade ago as banking trojan only to evolve into a backdoor and a delivery system for ransomware and other threats – continues to deftly adapt its techniques to stay ahead of security pros, according to a new report.…

'At least ten' people didn't declare coin income. Wow, what a bust The IRS has been granted a court order to collect records from a bank the agency said will help it identify US taxpayers who failed to report taxable income from crypto trades. …