Huge rise in rogue banking apps driving fraud attacks

By Alex Scroxton for ComputerWeekly
Friday, October 18, 2019

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A report from ImmuniWeb in August 2019 backed up RSA’s latest evidence. It found widespread failure among banks and other financial services firms to patch security holes in their websites and mobile apps.

All the financial services apps tested by ImmuniWeb contained at least one medium-risk vulnerability, and 97% had at least two medium- or high-risk vulnerabilities. It reported that 56% of mobile app backends had serious misconfiguration or privacy issues relating to SSL/TLS configuration and inadequate web server security hardening. Read Full Article