Threats against financial institutes

In addition to threats against end customers, institutes themselves are also at risk. Threats against financial institutes can be categorized as follows:

ATM attacks

While security vendors and operating system providers continue to invest in security, ATM attacks are still increasing. This is mainly due to legacy security controls that are in place for ATMs. Until now, many ATMs have run on Windows XP or Windows 7, providing very few security controls, such as the use of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). ATM attacks continue to increase every year, although they did slow down in Europe with the introduction of Chip and PIN, which led to a decrease in classic memory scraping threats...