Evolve Bank & Trust acknowledged the ransomware group published customer data from the bank, but the number of affected people remains unclear.

Ransomware group LockBit threatened on Sunday to publish the stolen data Tuesday evening. Ransomware experts said it was likely that the group was bluffing.

Chinese and Russian hackers recently accessed government and company executives' email accounts, bringing scrutiny to the tech giant's security practices.

The threat actor Sp1d3r posted an ad for the stolen data on Wednesday. Truist said the October breach is not related to a campaign by the same criminal group.

After a disruption in February, LockBit roared back in May, highlighting persistent cyber threats to the financial sector.

A report on efforts to deconflict federal cybersecurity regulations found the Treasury in particular has not completed its recommendations.

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions disclosed a February breach in April and recently disclosed an expanded victim count. The company faces a class action lawsuit.

In this month's roundup of top banking news: a Supreme Court ruling on CFPB funding, TD Bank's money laundering woes, an FDIC workplace probe reveals a culture of misconduct and more.

In "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends," Nicole Perlroth, a former New York Times reporter, offers a detailed picture of how the zero-day exploit trade developed and affects critical infrastructure.

Criminals breached a third-party database storing Santander customer and employee information, a type of intrusion that banks are increasingly facing.

In this week's edition of the American Banker news quiz, gauge your understanding of topics like cybersecurity testing, the impact of high interest rates on community banks, FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg and more.

The bank's chief information security officer shared why it took so long for the hackers to get in, what worked during the exercise and what didn't.

Cybersecurity leaders for Visa, Deluxe and Fiserv said powerful cloud players have been unresponsive to their requests to monitor the vendors' security postures.

A new policy directive aims to fortify critical infrastructure by enhancing collaboration between U.S. intelligence agencies and systemically important financial entities.

The report seeks to help banks "disrupt rapidly evolving AI-driven fraud," according to Treasury's Nellie Liang. The report found banks have difficulties accounting for AI risks.

In a simulation exercise hosted by the Global Resilience Federation on Tuesday, banks and credit unions tested their ability to withstand an industrywide wiperware attack.

The attack is one of three major incidents the lender has suffered in the past three years.

Bank of America, Citi and Navy Federal are among banks and credit unions to recently manage through unforeseen challenges.