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A man from New York was sentenced to four years in prison for trading stolen credit card data and assisting the Infraud Organization. John Telusma (aka ‘Peterelliot’), a New York man from New York (37), was sentenced this week to four years in prison for purchasing stolen or compromised credit cards and assisting the Infraud […]
Continue ReadingBy Waqas All three carding forums were popular among cybercriminals for buying and selling stolen credit and debit cards. Russian… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia seizes Trump Dumps, Ferum, and SkyFraud carding forums
Continue ReadingRetail giant Target is going to open-source an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker, designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Retail giant Target announced the release in open-source of an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker, designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Merry Maker is a tool designed by Target security developers Eric Brandel and Caleb Walch (@ebrandel and @cawalch) to […]
Continue ReadingRussian authorities arrested four alleged members of the international cyber theft ring tracked as ‘Infraud Organization.’ In February 2008, the US authorities dismantled the global cybercrime organization tracked as Infraud Organization, which was involved in stealing and selling credit card and personal identity data. The Justice Department announced indictments for 36 people charged with being […]
Continue ReadingWe are amid the busiest retail season of the year, with U.S. retail sales expected to grow 10.5% to a record $859 billion this holiday season compared to 2020. The number of transactions is increasing, but so is the number of hackers who are targeting shoppers’ cardholder data. As retailers welcome shoppers and juggle supply […]
Continue ReadingA new Magecart group leverages a browser script to evade virtualized environments and sandboxes used by researchers. Malwarebytes researchers have spotted a new Magecart group that uses a browser script to evade detection and the execution in virtualized environments used by security researchers for threat analysis. Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella continue to target e-stores to […]
Continue ReadingNortonLifeLock published a report detailing the top consumer cybersecurity insights and takeaways from July to September 2021. The latest findings show tech support scams, which often arrive as a pop-up alert convincingly disguised using the names and branding of major tech companies, have become the top phishing threat to consumers. Tech support scams are expected […]
Continue ReadingVesta released a report which includes an analysis of millions of digital transactions from the first quarter of 2020 through the first quarter of 2021 to track how CNP fraud evolved during that time frame. The overall percentage of global transactions its system identified as being potentially fraudulent ranged from 10 to 13%, with the […]
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The Wawa convenience store chain is paying out up to $9 million in cash and gift cards to customers who were affected by a previous data breach, as reimbursements for their loss and inconvenience. The affected customers can request gift cards or cash that Wawa is paying out to settle a lawsuit over the security […]
Continue ReadingBoffins from the Swiss ETH Zurich university demonstrated PIN bypass attack on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. A group of researchers from the Swiss ETH Zurich university has discovered a vulnerability that allowed them to bypass PIN codes on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. Technically the researchers performed a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack between […]
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