Crédit Mutuel Arkéa says hackers carried out fraudulent transactions
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Hackers moving from data theft to direct fraudulent transactions at a French cooperative bank is another escalation in financial cyber risk. Banks and fintechs need to assume that transaction systems themselves are targets and double down on anomaly detection, segregation of duties, and rapid rollback capabilities.
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