Comment on Cybercriminals have stolen almost 100 staff logins at the Big Four banks, experts say

nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

This is a funny article and kind of reads like the reporter just discovered the “hacker” community. Is it a scare piece for uninformed readers?

They highlight a social media post where some cybercriminal is selling username/password lists for crypto.

I don’t know if it’s common knowledge or maybe I hang out in weird places but there’s a whole lot more of this on the internet and has been for as long as I can remember.

The reporter goes on to allude - although doesn’t say exactly - that the accounts require 2FA at the banks to grant access so they aren’t actually compromised.

But then the reporter goes on to say the usernames and passwords might give “initial access” which is bad, but didn’t really explain what that is.

I guess the real news is that these credentials were stolen with a keylogger. What kind of bank IT system doesn’t have better malware blocking?

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