Landry's Restaurant Chain Suffers Payment Card Theft Via PoS Malware

Landry's, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale POS systems that allowed cybercriminals to steal customers' payment card information. Landry's owns and operates more than 600 bars, restaurants, hotels, casinos, food and beverage outle...

Citrix Hypervisor Security Update

Description of Problem A number of vulnerabilities have been found in Citrix Hypervisor formerly Citrix XenServer that may: i. Allow the host to be compromised by privileged code in a PV guest VM, ii. allow unprivileged code in a HVM guest VM to cause that guest to crash and iii. under certain...

T-Mobile Suffers Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Wireless Customers

Are you a T-Mobile prepaid customer? If yes, you should immediately create or update your associated account PIN/passcode as additional protection. The US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a yet another data breach incident that recently exposed potentially personal information of some...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Ramnit Banking Trojan

Ramnit Banking Trojan was first discovered in 2010 and is still evolving and staying actively as the second rank on the top banking trojan list in October 2019 as from the source post. It may be distributing via malvertising, exploit kit, spear-phishing campaign or others method to infect on the...

Rogue Trend Micro Employee Sold Customer Data for 68K Accounts

Trend Micro said that a rogue employee sold the data of 68,000 customers to a malicious third party, who then used that data to target customers with scam calls. The employee, who gained unauthorized access to a customer-support database, has since been terminated. Trend Micro said that the...

Popular Online Tutoring Marketplace 'Wyzant' Suffers Data Breach

Wyzant—an online marketplace that makes it easy for parents and students to connect with private tutors, in-person and online, in over 250 different subjects—has suffered a data breach exposing "certain personal identification information" for its customers. The Hacker News received a copy of an...

Wipro Confirms Hack and Supply Chain Attacks on Customers

IT systems consulting behemoth Wipro Ltd. has confirmed that its network was hacked and used for mounting attacks on its customers. After multiple unnamed sources independently told Brian Krebs that a “multi-month intrusion” occurred and is likely the work of an advanced persistent threat APT act...

Houzz data breach: Why informing your customers is the right call

Houzz is an online platform dedicated to home renovation and design. Today February 1, 2019, they notified their customers about a data breach that reportedly happened in December 2018. Data breaches unfortunately have become a common event. In fact, we dubbed 2018 the year of the data breach...

Humble Bundle alerts customers to subscription reveal bug

You’ll want to check your mailbox if you have a Humble Bundle account, as they’re notifying some customers of a bug used to gather subscriber information. Click to enlarge The mail reads as follows: Hello, Last week, we discovered someone using a bug in our code to access limited non-personal...

iPhone Chip Supplier TSMC Stops Production After Computer Virus Attack

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC—Apple's sole supplier of SoC components for iPhones and iPads, and Qualcomm's major manufacturing partner—shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories Friday night after being hit by a computer virus. The world's largest makers of...

Ticketmaster Suffers Security Breach – Personal and Payment Data Stolen

Global entertainment ticketing service Ticketmaster has admitted that the company has suffered a security breach, warning customers that their personal and payment information may have been accessed by an unknown third-party. The company has blamed a third-party support customer service chat...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32644: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on May 2, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 57715 First Published: 2018 May 2 20:33 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID32644 may contain the following files: Name | Size ...

Citrix XenServer Multiple Security Updates

Description of Problem A number of vulnerabilities have been identified within Citrix XenServer that could, if exploited, allow a malicious administrator of a guest VM to crash the host and, for some XenServer versions, allow a remote attacker to compromise the host. The following vulnerabilities...

Forever 21 Confirms Security Breach Exposed Customer Credit Card Details

First notified in November of a data breach incident, popular clothing retailer Forever 21 has now confirmed that hackers stole credit card information from its stores throughout the country for several months during 2017. Although the company did not yet specify the total number of its customers...

Nissan Finance Canada Suffers Data Breach — Notifies 1.13 Million Customers

It's the last month of this year, but possibly not the last data breach report. Nissan warns of a possible data breach of personal information on its customers who financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services Canada. Although the company says it does not...

Hackers Steal Payment Card Data From Over 1,150 InterContinental Hotels

InterContinental Hotels Group IHG is notifying its customers that credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been stolen after it found malware on payment card systems at 1,174 franchise hotels in the United States. It's the second data breach that U.K.-based IHG, which owns...

Over 43 Million Weebly Accounts Hacked; Foursquare Also Hit By Data Breach

2016 is the year of data breaches that has made almost every major companies victims to the cyber attacks, resulting in compromise of over billion of online users accounts. Weebly and Foursquare are the latest victims of the massive data breach, joining the list of "Mega-Breaches" revealed in...

Moonpig Warns Customers of 'Security Issue'

Moonpig has warned customers that some of their email addresses, passwords, and account balances have been published after what it calls a “security issue”. The company, which sells custom greeting cards, said in a message to users that attackers were not able to get any credit card information, ...

eBay Compromised in Data Breach, Urges Password Change

The online retail and auction giant eBay will be asking its customers to change their passwords later today because of a cyberattack that compromised a server containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial information. The company says it does not believe that there has been any...

Reputation.com Notifies Customers of Network Attack

A company known for burying bad information to improve its customers’ online images let everyone know this week its network was hacked. Reputation.com sent e-mails to thousands of customers in more than 100 countries to let them know of the attack. In a message sent earlier this week, the company...