Cybersecurity researchers have detected a dramatic surge in fraudulent schemes aimed at compromising financial institutions and their clients. According to data published by Fortra's Intelligence and Research Experts (FIRE), phishing attacks using remote management tools surged almost fivefold in the first nine months of 2026 compared with all of 2025. These sophisticated campaigns focus heavily on retail and commercial banking customers. Threat actors deploy deceptive support portals that mim
The analysis from Fortinet below is part of an incident investigation led by their Incident Response Team. Their researchers discovered malware that had been running on a compromised machine for several weeks. The threat actor had executed a batch of scripts and PowerShell to run the malware in a Windows process. Although obtaining the original malware executable was difficult, a memory dump of the running malware process and a full memory dump of the compromised machine (the “fullout” file,
