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There’s an app for that: web skimmers found on PaaS Heroku
Criminals love to abuse legitimate services—especially platform-as-a-service Paas cloud providers—as they are a popular and reliable hosting commodity used to support both business and consumer ventures. Case in point, in April 2019 we documented a web skimmer served on code repository GitHub...
The vulnerability of Google Chrome, related to the insecure processing of credit card data during autofilling, allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.
The vulnerability of Google Chrome relates to the insecure processing of credit card data during automatic filling. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected information through a specially created HTML page...
Cyber Monday: Tips for Safeguarding Personal Information
Cyber Monday draw millions of shoppers online for deals and savings, but this day also provides opportunities for an attacker to steal personal information. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing or shopping online. CISA encourages...
RevengeHotels: cybercrime targeting hotel front desks worldwide
RevengeHotels is a targeted cybercrime malware campaign against hotels, hostels, hospitality and tourism companies, mainly, but not exclusively, located in Brazil. We have confirmed more than 20 hotels that are victims of the group, located in eight states in Brazil, but also in other countries...
PoS Malware Exposes Customer Data of Catch Restaurants
Popular NYC restaurants Catch NYC, Catch Roof and Catch Steak discovered and removed malware on their point-of-sale PoS systems — but not before it exposed credit-card information from unknowing diners. Catch Hospitality Group, which owns the three NYC hotspots, said in a data-breach notice this...
ID Thieves Turn to Snail Mail as Juicy Target for Financial Crimes
As it gets harder for cybercriminals to bypass business email compromise BEC defenses, some hackers are switching from email scams to real-mail cons. Researchers at Flashpoint said they are monitoring hacker forums where criminals are swapping tips on a growing ID theft and financial crime area,...
Hackers now use web skimmers to steal credit card data
By Sudais Remember, in the usual scenario, cybercriminals use skimmers to steam card data from ATM and gas stations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers now use web skimmers to steal credit card data...
Web skimmer phishes credit card data via rogue payment service platform
Heading into the holiday shopping season, we have been tracking increased activity from a threat group registering domains for skimming and phishing campaigns. While most of the campaigns implemented a web skimmer in the typical fashion—grabbing and exfiltrating data from a merchant's checkout pa...
Why Were the Russians So Set Against This Hacker Being Extradited?
The Russian government has for the past four years been fighting to keep 29-year-old alleged cybercriminal Alexei Burkov from being extradited by Israel to the United States. When Israeli authorities turned down requests to send him back to Russia -- supposedly to face separate hacking charges...
Facebook scams: Bad ads, bogus grants, and fake tickets lurk on social media giant
We recently highlighted new steps Instagram is taking to try and clamp down on scammers sending fake messages on their platform. It turns out, other social media giants are walking a similar path for a variety of bogus ads and other attacks. Facebook scams in particular have taken off, despite th...
Leading Web Domain Name Registrars Disclose Data Breach
Another day, another massive data breach—this time affecting a leading web technology company, as well as both of its subsidiaries, from where millions of customers around the world have purchased domain names for their websites. The world's top domain registrars Web.com, Network Solutions, and...
Raccoon Malware Scavenges 100,000+ Devices to Steal Data
A new information stealer, dubbed Raccoon, is rapidly gaining popularity with cybercriminals. In just a few months, researchers say the malware has already infected hundreds of thousands of devices across the world to rove through victims’ credit card data, email credentials and more. The malware...
FBI Releases Article on Defending Against E-Skimming
The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article to raise awareness on e-skimming threats. E-skimming occurs when an attacker injects malicious code onto a website to capture credit or debit card data or personally identifiable information PII. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
Magecart 5 Linked to Carbanak Gang
Researchers have linked Magecart Group 5, the credit-card skimming cybercriminals behind the Ticketmaster breach, to Dridex phishing campaigns and the infamous Carbanak group. Magecart – which is an umbrella group encompassing several different affiliates all using the same modus operandi – injec...
“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards
"BriansClub," one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, includin...
Hackers found tracking web traffic of Chrome and Firefox browsers
By Sudais This, however, is not the first time when Chrome and Firefox browsers have been targeted in one attack altogether. Last year, Vega Stealer malware was caught stealing saved passwords and credit/debit card data from Chrome and Firefox users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the...
Magecart Group 4: A link with Cobalt Group?
Note: This blog post is a collaboration between the Malwarebytes and HYAS Threat Intelligence teams. Magecart is a term that has become a household name, and it refers to the theft of credit card data via online stores. The most common scenario is for criminals to compromise e-commerce sites by...
New Amazon phishing scam stealing credit card data
By Waqas A new Amazon phishing scam email is circulating, that tricks users into handing over their personal as well as financial information including credit card information to online crooks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Amazon phishing scam stealing credit card...
Major Groupon, TicketMaster Fraud Scheme Exposed By Insecure Database
UPDATE After discovering a cache of 17 million emails exposed on an unsecured database, researchers with vpnMentor began to hunt for its owner — but to their surprise, they found that the database belonged not to a company, but to a sophisticated criminal network. Cybercriminals had been both...
