US Court Sentences Russian Lawmaker's Son to 27 Years in Jail for Hacking

The son of a prominent Russian lawmaker was sentenced on Friday by a US federal court to 27 years in prison after being convicted of stealing millions of US credit card numbers and causing some $170 million in damages to businesses and individuals. This sentence is so far the longest sentence eve...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

InterContinental Hotel Chain Breach Expands

In December 2016, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that fraud experts at various banks were seeing a pattern suggesting a widespread credit card breach across some 5,000 hotels worldwide owned by InterContinental Hotels Group IHG. In February, IHG acknowledged a breach but said it appeared to invol...

IHG Confirms Second Credit Card Breach Impacting 1,000-Plus Hotels

In what’s becoming a familiar refrain to guests, InterContinental Hotels Group, said late last week that payment card systems at more than 1,000 of its hotels had been breached. It’s the second breach that IHG, a multinational hotel conglomerate that counts Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza among its...

Shoney’s Hit By Apparent Credit Card Breach

It's Friday, which means it's time for another episode of "Which Restaurant Chain Got Hacked?" Multiple sources in the financial industry say they've traced a pattern of fraud on customer cards indicating that the latest victim may be Shoney's, a 70-year-old restaurant chain that operates primari...

Credit Card Manager - External URLs, SD-card access, Suspicious files vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Credit Card Manager published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Credit Card Number Disclosure

Credit card numbers are used in applications where a user is able to purchase goods and/or services. A credit card number is a sensitive piece of information and should be handled as such. Cyber-criminals will use various methods to attempt to compromise credit card information that can then be...

Hackers with Credit Card Scrapers Continue to Target Magento

Attackers continue to take aim at the e-commerce platform Magento. Researchers said last week they came across a malicious function snuck into one of the platform’s modules in order to steal credit card information. Code for the function was injected into a .php file for SF9 Realex, a module that...

How anyone could have used Uber to ride for free!

Note: This is being published with the permission of Uber under the responsible disclosure policy. The vulnerability was fixed in August 2016. Summary: This post is about an interesting bug on Uber which could have been used to ride for free anywhere in the world. Attackers could have misused thi...

Criminals Monetizing Attacks Against Unpatched WordPress Sites

Criminals have inevitably begun to attempt to monetize attacks against WordPress sites still vulnerable to a severe REST API endpoint vulnerability silently patched in the recent 4.7.2 security update. While more than one million websites have been defaced, researchers are now beginning to see so...

InterContinental Hotels Confirms Credit Card Breach

InterContinental Hotels Group IHG, parent company to Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Kimpton Hotels and Resorts, confirmed on Friday a breach of payment card systems used in 12 of its hotels located in North America and the Caribbean. According to IHG, which operates 5,000 hotels worldwide, malware...

Telemarketing Firm Leaks 400,000 Recorded Calls

More than 400,000 audio files associated with a Florida company’s telemarketing efforts were stored online in the clear, and were discovered earlier this month by researchers at MacKeeper. More than 17,600 of those audio recordings were customer transactions that included names, addresses, and...

Netflix Phishing Campaign Targeted User Information, Credit Card Data

Researchers recently identified a phishing campaign set up to lure unsuspecting Netflix users into giving up their credentials and credit card data. The campaign – now defunct – started with an email informing users they needed to update their account details. From there, victims were brought to ...

Credit Card Data and Other Information Targeted in Netflix Phishing Campaign

Introduction Through FireEye’s Email Threat Prevention ETP solution, FireEye Labs discovered a phishing campaign in the wild targeting the credit card data and other personal information of Netflix users primarily based in the United States. This campaign is interesting because of the evasion...

Credit Card Data and Other Information Targeted in Netflix Phishing Campaign

Introduction Through FireEye’s Email Threat Prevention ETP solution, FireEye Labs discovered a phishing campaign in the wild targeting the credit card data and other personal information of Netflix users primarily based in the United States. This campaign is interesting because of the evasion...

Credit Card Data and Other Information Targeted in Netflix Phishing Campaign

Introduction Through FireEye’s Email Threat Prevention ETP solution, FireEye Labs discovered a phishing campaign in the wild targeting the credit card data and other personal information of Netflix users primarily based in the United States. This campaign is interesting because of the evasion...

Security Compliance with Static Code Analysis

NOTE: This blog post is outdated. For an update list of supported compliance requirements please visit our website. PCI DSS The Data Security Standard from the Payment Card Industry, short PCI DSS, specifies 12 requirements for the safe use of credit card information. The specifications were...

FBI Most Wanted Fugitive JPMorgan Hacker Arrested in New York

One of the FBI's most wanted hackers who was behind the largest theft of financial data has finally been arrested at the JFK airport in New York. Joshua Samuel Aaron is accused of being part of a hacking group that attacked several major financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, and...

Been shopping lately? Fake credit card email can spook you into downloading Cerber ransomware

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. As the shopping sprees become increasingly frenetic during holiday season, it’s hard not to worry about how much credit card debt we’re piling. Some of us...

Experts Explain How Hackers Can Hack Your Credit Cards In Seconds

As India attempts an upgrade to a cashless society, cyber security experts have raised serious concerns and revealed how to find credit card information – including expiration dates and CVV numbers – in just 6 Seconds. And what's more interesting? The hack uses nothing more than guesswork by...