Home Depot Confirms Data Breach in Order Confirmation SNAFU

Home Depot has exposed the private order confirmations of hundreds of Canadian consumers, containing names, physical addresses, email addresses, order details and partial credit-card information. After customers began reporting that they had received hundreds of emails from the home-improvement...

Breach at Dickey’s BBQ Smokes 3M Cards

One of the digital undergrounds most popular stores for peddling stolen credit card information began selling a batch of more than three million new card records this week. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the data was stolen in a lengthy data breach at more than 100 Dickeys Barbeque Restaurant...

Amazon Prime Day—8 tips for safer shopping

Avid Amazon Prime Day shoppers may have been worried theyd missed it this year—thanks coronavirus. Fear not, last month Amazon announced Prime Day will take place three months after its original annual date, beginning today. And this year, itll take place over two days, rather than one. This coul...

Credit card skimmer targets virtual conference platform

Weve seen many security incidents affecting different websites simultaneously because they were loading the same tampered piece of code. In many instances, this is due to what we call a supply-chain attack, where a threat actor targets one company that acts as an intermediary to others. In todays...

Mobile network operator falls into the hands of Fullz House criminal group

Update 2020-10-05: The malicious code has been removed from Boom! Mobiles website Most victims of Magecart-based attacks tend to be typical online shops selling various goods. However, every now and again we come across different types of businesses which were affected simply because they happene...

Caught in the payment fraud net: when, not if?

Sometimes, I think there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and some form of payment fraud. Security reporter Danny Palmer experienced this a little while ago, and has spent a significant amount of time tracking the journey of his card details from the UK to Suriname. His deep-dive...

Free Apple iPhone 12? Chatbot Phish Spreads Via Texts

A mobile phishing campaign is spreading via text messages purporting to come from an Apple chatbot – and offering “free trials” of iPhone 12. The iPhone 12 is due to be released in October, and the buzz is high for Appleheads who are anxiously awaiting the launch. Cybercriminals are taking...

Interesting Attack on the EMV Smartcard Payment Standard

Its complicated, but its basically a man-in-the-middle attack that involves two smartphones. The first phone reads the actual smartcard, and then forwards the required information to a second phone. That second phone actually conducts the transaction on the POS terminal. That second phone is able...

When Hackers Take Advantage of Your Trusted Vendors

As JavaScript-based client-side attacks continue to evolve, we see how attackers are getting more sophisticated and employing more advanced techniques. Unfortunately, it has been proven many times that any website partner can be exploited to carry out an attack. In the past month, we witnessed on...

Evilnum hackers targeting financial firms with a new Python-based RAT

An adversary known for targeting the fintech sector at least since 2018 has switched up its tactics to include a new Python-based remote access Trojan RAT that can steal passwords, documents, browser cookies, email credentials, and other sensitive information. In an analysis published by Cybereas...

PCI DSS compliance: why it’s important and how to adhere

PCI DSS is short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Every party involved in accepting credit card payments is expected to comply with the PCI DSS. The PCI Standard is mandated by the card brands, but administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council PCI SSC. The...

GHSA-WJF2-7F9G-86F5 Malicious Package in fast-requests

All versions of fast-requests contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment. Review your...

GHSA-8J7X-PR59-M5H8 Malicious Package in whiteproject

All versions of whiteproject contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment. Review your...

Malicious Package in carloprojectdiscord

All versions of carloprojectdiscord contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment. Revie...

Malicious Package in discord_debug_log

All versions of discorddebuglog contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment. Review yo...

Malicious Package in carloprojectlesang

All versions of carloprojectlesang contain obfuscated malware that uploads Discord user tokens to a remote server. This allows attackers to make purchases on behalf of users if they have credit cards linked to their Discord accounts. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment. Review...

New credit card skimmers channel funds through Telegram

By Sudais Asif The technique focuses on using the famous messenger app Telegram for transmitting the stolen payment details. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New credit card skimmers channel funds through Telegram...

Malicious Package in stream-combine

Version 2.0.2 of stream-combine has malicious code design to steal credentials and credit card information. The code searches all form elements for passwords, credit card numbers and CVC codes. It then uploads the information to a remote server using HTML links embedded in the page or form action...

GHSA-W6XJ-45GV-FW35 Malicious Package in stream-combine

Version 2.0.2 of stream-combine has malicious code design to steal credentials and credit card information. The code searches all form elements for passwords, credit card numbers and CVC codes. It then uploads the information to a remote server using HTML links embedded in the page or form action...

New Web-Based Credit Card Stealer Uses Telegram Messenger to Exfiltrate Data

Cybercriminal groups are constantly evolving to find new ways to pilfer financial information, and the latest trick in their arsenal is to leverage the messaging app Telegram to their benefit. In what's a new tactic adopted by Magecart groups, the encrypted messaging service is being used to send...