2025-03-13 • FSI • Warning on State-Backed Hacking Threats Targeting the Financial Sector •
The Financial Security Institute warns that state-backed hacking groups are targeting financial institutions and consumers with phishing emails carrying malicious LNK files or document scripts disguised as virtual-asset materials from financial authorities. The malware displays decoy documents while exfiltrating user information to cloud storage and installing remote-control tools, indicating espionage and financially motivated objectives against cryptocurrency and finance-sector targets.