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Financial Services Cybersecurity for Banks, Credit Unions, and Fintechs

ZeroFox finds the customer cards and credentials already for sale on criminal markets, and removes the banking sites and apps collecting more of them in your name.

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Your Customers' Card Data Is Often for Sale Before the Fraud Posts

Fraud rarely starts at the transaction. It starts with a card number in a carding shop, a customer login in a stealer log dump, or an access broker advertising a way into the institution itself, often weeks before anything reaches a statement. That window is where the loss is still preventable, and it sits entirely outside the bank's network. Cybersecurity for financial institutions that begins at the perimeter begins too late. ZeroFox monitors the markets where card data and credentials change hands, alongside the spoofed banking domains and fraudulent apps already collecting more of both.
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correlated signals across criminal forums, credential markets, and the open web

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successful takedowns annually at a 95%+ takedown acceptance rate across 80+ Global Disruption Network partners

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ZeroFox Protection for Banks and Financial Institutions

Financial institutions defend customer money, brand trust, executive safety, and a regulatory position all at once, across a public footprint they do not own and cannot patch. ZeroFox covers the part of that job that happens outside the perimeter, then removes what it finds.

Track card numbers, BIN ranges, and full dumps traded in carding shops and closed criminal forums, ahead of the chargebacks and fraud losses that follow.
Detect lookalike domains and cloned login pages at registration, with a 10 min average mitigation time for confirmed phishing URLs, before customers ever reach them.
Surface and remove rogue banking and fintech apps that harvest customer credentials across global app stores and third-party marketplaces.
Find customer logins and employee credentials in stealer logs and access broker listings before they turn into account takeovers or an intrusion.
Identify AI-generated audio and video of your executives used in payment authorization fraud, market manipulation, and cryptocurrency investment scams.
Remove fake support accounts, smishing lures, and fraudulent investment offers impersonating your institution across 200+ channels.
Scrub executive PII from data broker sites before it fuels targeting, and deliver analyst-vetted geospatial alerts for threats near headquarters, branch locations, and executive travel.

Why ZeroFox Leads in Financial Services Cybersecurity

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The Pre-Fraud Window Is the Product

ZeroFox operates where card data and account access are traded, rather than after the disputes, chargebacks, and regulatory questions arrive.

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Customer-Facing Fraud Is in Scope

Coverage includes the fake portals, rogue apps, and support accounts that defraud your customers directly in your institution's name.

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Human Access to Closed Sources

DarkOps specialists hold authenticated access to invite-only carding shops and criminal forums that automated crawlers never reach.

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Takedowns Routed to Whoever Can Act

Confirmed findings go to the registrar, host, or platform through 80+ disruption partners at a 95%+ acceptance rate.

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Evidence Examiners Accept

Timestamped, analyst-validated records support SEC cyber disclosure, NYDFS 23 NYCRR Part 500, DORA, GLBA Safeguards Rule, and FFIEC reporting obligations.

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Analysts as an Extension of Your Team

100+ in-house CTI analysts, plus managed service and takedown teams working 24/7/365, cover the channels your fraud and security teams cannot watch alone.

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We use this tool on a daily basis to ensure that our online presence and executives are being appropriately monitored, including monitoring on the dark web for any compromised credentials as a part of the large data breaches. We are very happy with the tool and the support we receive."

Information Security AVP, Global Investment Management Firm

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Frequently asked questions

Financial services cybersecurity is the practice of protecting banks, credit unions, insurers, and fintechs, along with their customers, from digital threats. Most of the category defends the institution's own environment: networks, endpoints, core banking systems, and payment infrastructure. Cybersecurity for financial institutions also has to cover what happens outside that environment, including card data and customer logins sold on criminal markets, spoofed banking domains built to collect credentials, and fraudulent mobile apps published in the institution's name.
Financial institutions hold high-value data and move money at scale, which makes them a standing target for organized criminal groups, fraud rings, and state-aligned actors at the same time. A single cloned login portal can drain customer accounts for weeks before anyone inside the bank sees a pattern, and the institution absorbs both the loss and the damage to customer trust. Regulators including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) now expect continuous visibility and fast disclosure, so a gap in external monitoring carries a regulatory cost on top of the fraud cost.
Usually by buying it. Card numbers and BIN ranges are sold in carding shops, often harvested from skimmers, e-commerce compromises, or a breach at a third party the customer used. Customer and employee logins circulate in stealer logs pulled from infected personal devices, then get resold or run through credential stuffing tools. Access brokers sell entry into the institution itself. A spoofed banking domain or a fraudulent mobile app collects the same data firsthand. In each case the earliest signal is a listing or a newly registered domain, not an alert inside the bank, which is why dark web and domain visibility function as controls rather than as research.
Financial institutions operate under several overlapping frameworks, including SEC cyber disclosure rules, NYDFS 23 NYCRR Part 500, the European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Safeguards Rule, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) guidance, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) rules, and PCI DSS 4.0. Most now expect continuous visibility and documented governance rather than an annual audit. ZeroFox produces timestamped, analyst-validated records of what was found, what action was taken, and what the outcome was, which supports those reporting obligations. ZeroFox does not certify compliance with any framework. It supplies the evidence and reporting that compliance work depends on.
ZeroFox finds fraud while it is still being assembled outside the perimeter, then disrupts it. DarkOps operatives monitor carding shops, stealer log dumps, and access broker listings inside invite-only forums, while automated detection catches spoofed domains, cloned login portals, and fraudulent apps at registration. Once a threat is confirmed, the ZeroFox Global Disruption Network of 80+ partners removes it, at a 95%+ takedown acceptance rate and a 10 min average mitigation time for phishing URLs.