Protect What Attackers Target First
Financial institutions are the most persistently targeted organisations on the internet. Scrutex's AI-powered Continuous Threat Exposure Management gives banks, fintechs, insurers, and payment providers real-time visibility into every external vulnerability, credential leak, brand impersonation attempt, and vendor risk, before attackers exploit them.
Why Financial Services Is Always in the Crosshairs
Financial institutions hold the two things attackers want most: money and identity data. Every externally facing login portal, payment subdomain, mobile app, and third-party fintech integration is a potential entry point. Credential stuffing campaigns run around the clock against customer-facing systems. Business Email Compromise operations target finance teams using leaked employee credentials. Fake banking apps harvest customer logins at scale. And as open banking and API-driven financial ecosystems expand, the supply chain attack surface grows with every new vendor connection, often without the security team knowing.
Key Challenges
Credential and Session Token Leaks
Employee and customer credentials appear in dark web combo lists and malware stealer logs faster than most teams can monitor. A single leaked session token can grant an attacker authenticated access to your core banking platform without triggering a single login alert.
Fake Banking Apps and Phishing Domains
Attackers register lookalike domains and publish counterfeit mobile apps that mirror your branding to harvest customer credentials at scale. By the time your customers report fraud, thousands of credentials may already be compromised.
Third-Party Fintech and Payment Vendor Risk
Open banking APIs and embedded finance integrations mean your security posture is only as strong as your weakest vendor. Most organisations have dozens of fintechs, payment processors, and data providers connected to production systems, with limited ongoing visibility into their security health.
Regulatory Compliance Evidence Gaps
PCI DSS v4.0, SOX, GDPR, and regional equivalents require demonstrable, continuous monitoring of your external attack surface. Point-in-time penetration tests no longer satisfy auditors, yet many teams lack the tooling to generate continuous compliance evidence without significant manual effort.
Exposed Infrastructure on Abandoned Subdomains
Mergers, acquisitions, product retirements, and cloud migrations leave behind dangling subdomains, expired SSL certificates, and misconfigured email security records, invisible liabilities that attackers actively scan for and exploit.
How Scrutex Protects Financial Services Organisations
Five integrated modules working together to provide comprehensive external risk coverage.
Continuously discovers and maps every internet-facing asset, including IPs, subdomains, SSL certificates, email security records, and web technologies, then assesses each for exploitable vulnerabilities.
- ✓Detects expired and misconfigured SSL certificates on customer portals and payment endpoints
- ✓Identifies dangling subdomains from legacy systems, retired products, and acquired entities
- ✓Flags SPF/DKIM misconfigurations that allow attackers to spoof your official email domains, enabling BEC and phishing campaigns that appear to come from your own brand
- ✓Surfaces outdated web technologies and unpatched libraries across public-facing banking applications
- ✓Monitors blacklisted IPs on your infrastructure that may indicate prior compromise
Continuously scans the dark web, breach databases, paste sites, Telegram channels, and malware stealer logs for any data associated with your organisation or employees.
- ✓Detects employee and customer credentials leaked through third-party breaches before they are used in credential stuffing attacks
- ✓Identifies session cookies and authentication tokens harvested by malware from infected employee machines, giving attackers authenticated access without a password
- ✓Monitors for source code leaks exposing internal API logic, authentication flows, or infrastructure credentials
- ✓Scans for exposed API keys and secrets in public code repositories
- ✓Monitors open cloud storage containing customer records, KYC documents, or transaction data
- ✓Tracks VIP and executive personal data exposure that could be used in targeted social engineering
Detects all attempts to impersonate your brand, including fake domains, rogue mobile apps, and fraudulent social media profiles, with unlimited takedown support included.
- ✓Identifies typosquatting and lookalike domains registered to impersonate your banking or payment brand
- ✓Detects fake mobile banking apps published on third-party app stores targeting your customers
- ✓Monitors social media for impersonation accounts posing as your official channels or customer support
- ✓Flags phishing domains built on your brand that are actively sending fraudulent email campaigns
- ✓Provides unlimited takedown requests for confirmed impersonation
Delivers continuous, automated security assessments of every third-party vendor, including fintechs, payment processors, cloud providers, and KYC platforms, aligned to the frameworks your compliance team requires.
- ✓Runs unlimited vendor assessments using PCI DSS and ISO 27001-aligned questionnaire templates
- ✓Provides live CTEM correlation: your vendor's real-world external posture assessed alongside their questionnaire responses
- ✓Generates audit-ready vendor risk reports with AI-assisted scoring for board and regulator reporting
- ✓Enables rapid due diligence for new fintech partnerships and M&A activity
Delivers contextualised, real-time threat intelligence specific to the financial sector, mapped to your organisation, not generic feeds.
- ✓Tracks APT groups known to target SWIFT infrastructure, central banks, and tier-1 financial institutions
- ✓Monitors ransomware leak sites for your organisation's data and for activity from groups targeting financial services
- ✓Tracks BEC campaign infrastructure and phishing kit activity built on your brand
- ✓Delivers weekly and monthly threat briefings to your security team and SIEM
- ✓Provides IOC feeds integrated into your existing security stack
Regulatory Alignment
Scrutex doesn't just help you detect threats. It generates the continuous monitoring evidence your regulators and auditors expect to see.
PCI DSS v4.0 (Req 6, 11)
GlobalContinuous external vulnerability scanning and pen testing evidence
GDPR / UK GDPR
Europe / UKBreach detection, data exposure monitoring, vendor due diligence
SOX IT General Controls
USA / Listed CompaniesContinuous monitoring evidence for IT control environments
SWIFT Customer Security Programme
GlobalAttack surface visibility and third-party risk controls
DORA
EUThird-party ICT risk management and threat intelligence
APRA CPS 234
AustraliaInformation security capability assessment for third parties
MAS TRM Guidelines
SingaporeTechnology risk management and vendor oversight
NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation
USA (New York)Continuous monitoring and pen testing requirements
ISO 27001
GlobalVulnerability management, supplier relationships, incident detection
Cyber Security Act 2024
AustraliaRansomware reporting and attack surface management
Real Results
How an Attack Unfolds and Where Scrutex Stops It
An attacker scans your external infrastructure and finds a dangling subdomain from a recently decommissioned mobile banking pilot. They register a lookalike domain, clone your mobile app interface, and launch a phishing campaign targeting your customers via SMS. While this is happening, a combo list containing hundreds of employee credentials from a third-party breach surfaces on a dark web forum. Within 72 hours, the attacker has both a phishing infrastructure targeting customers and valid employee credentials to attempt internal access.
Scrutex detects the dangling subdomain on day one. It flags the lookalike domain registration within hours of creation. It surfaces the credential leak from the dark web forum the same day it appears. Your security team receives prioritised, actionable alerts at each stage, before a single customer is defrauded.
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