“Account Takeovers Increasingly Used to Manipulate Markets” - Solidus Labs Report Urges Unified Cyber-Compliance Response

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 3, 2025--

Solidus Labs, the category-definer for Agentic-Based Compliance in trade surveillance and risk monitoring, has released a new investigative report, “Account Takeover Meets Market Abuse: The Rise of Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime.” The report details how compromised retail accounts are being hijacked and weaponized for market manipulation —bypassing siloed cybersecurity, fraud, and legacy surveillance systems in the process.

The findings come amid growing concern from global regulators and law enforcement agencies. The report examines the anatomy of recent landmark incidents — including one in Japan between January and April 2025, where more than 6,300 accounts were hijacked across nine brokerage firms, enabling unauthorized trades totaling over ¥300 billion (approximately $2 billion). Similar patterns are now emerging in the U.S., Hong Kong, Singapore, and other major markets, where watchdogs including FINRA, the SFC, MAS, and others have issued guidance and briefings highlighting ATOs as a critical threat vector, urging firms to enhance detection capabilities.

“Account takeover breaches are no longer isolated instances of cyber or fraud - they’re often weaponized as launchpads for large-scale, coordinated market manipulation,” said Spyridon Antonopoulos, VP of Client Solutions and Head of Investigations at Solidus Labs. “We’re seeing attackers use phishing, deepfakes, and adversary-in-the-middle techniques not just to defraud accounts, but to move markets. Combating this threat requires a holistic, intelligence-led approach that unifies cybersecurity, compliance, and trade surveillance within a single, risk-based framework.”

The report demonstrates how legacy compliance, fraud monitoring, and trade surveillance systems—each siloed in narrow risk categories—lack the integrated approach necessary to detect ATO-driven manipulation in time to take effective action. To stay ahead, financial institutions must adopt a surveillance architecture that:

• Enables consistent oversight across jurisdictions, markets, and client types
• Detects anomalous login behavior and session hijacks
• Correlates suspicious trade activity across potentially compromised accounts
• Surfaces cross-market exit strategies indicative of wash trading or rapid fund movement

Solidus Labs’ HALO platform provides a unified view of risk by integrating multi-dimensional signals that are traditionally siloed across surveillance, cybersecurity, and fraud teams—such as transactional behavior, cybersecurity telemetry, and real-time order book dynamics. This intelligence is processed through a risk-based, agentic AI architecture purpose-built to detect cyber-enabled financial crime and market manipulation. Powered by bespoke detection algorithms, HALO reduces alert fatigue, accelerates investigations, and helps safeguard brokers’ reputations and bottom lines.

The report is now available for download at https://www.soliduslabs.com/reports/account-takeover-meets-market-abuse.

About Solidus Labs
Solidus Labs is the category-definer for Agentic-Based Compliance in trade surveillance and risk monitoring. Founded in 2018 by Goldman Sachs veterans, the company merges Wall Street rigor, crypto-native innovation, and cybersecurity principles to reinvent compliance for the modern financial era. At the core is HALO, an AI-powered risk-based platform trusted by financial institutions, crypto firms, and regulators globally to drive proactive, intelligence-led oversight — across any product, venue, or asset class.

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