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Akamai Links Attack Growth to AI-Enabled Botnets and HacktivistsAkamai says AI-enabled botnets, geopolitical hacktivism and financially motivated cybercriminals drove a massive rise in DDoS, API and web attacks against global financial services firms in 2025, with banks suffering the majority of incidents.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malicious package discovered on the NuGet Gallery, impersonating a library from financial services firm Stripe in an attempt to target the financial sector
Banks Must Secure APIs, Vet Partners and Prepare for Open Finance Threats in 2025Open finance is revolutionizing banking, but it's also expanding the attack surface. Discover the critical API, data privacy and third-party risks facing financial institutions in 2025 - and how to build a secure future.
AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere; often with a high-privilege API key, OAuth token, or service account that defenders can’t easily see. These “invisible” non-human identities (NHIs) now outnumber human accounts in most cloud environments, and they have
Enhancing API security for financial institutions Partner Content Open banking has revolutionized financial services, empowering consumers to share their financial data with third-party providers, including fintech innovators.…
Researchers have shown that it's possible to abuse OpenAI's real-time voice API for ChatGPT-4o, an advanced LLM chatbot, to conduct financial scams with low to moderate success rates. [...]
Academics Build AI Agent With OpenAI to Execute Phone Scams at ScaleHackers can use OpenAI's real-time voice API to carry out for less than a dollar deepfake scams involving voice impersonations of government officials or bank employees to swindle victims, said researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Understanding API security risks isn't just a good idea — it's a business imperative. A single API breach can lead to financial losses and reputational damage.
The Salt Security report also notes a 244% surge in unique attackers between H1 and H2 2022
Web attacks also surge in financial services, although not in UK
API attacks, bad bots and DDoS attacks were the industry's main security challenges