New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre issued a general security advisory warning of DoS attacks affecting entities in New Zealand. The NZX was forced to suspend trading last week because of the cyber attacks but today it is trading under an arrangement with the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority to keep trading even if its…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a number of both large and small Retail Forex brokers running MT4 have been the subject of successful DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks originating out of China. The hackers have apparently exploited a vulnerability in MT4, which is difficult to protect because of decryption. That has enabled the hackers to…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA-regulated MT4 broker ActivTrades has been the latest Forex Industry victim of a hack attack. We had earlier reported that FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) suffered a hit by hackers which saw client information compromised and even some wire transfers initiated (note that this did not occur in the ActivTrades hack, more…
Read moreContinuing our exclusive coverage of the events unfolding at forex solutions provider oneZero, LeapRate has learned that the outages hitting oneZero and thereby some of its hosted clients over the past week are the result of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks being made against the company. After engaging multiple security contractors, the company has isolated the attacks…
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