Protecting Websites from Magecart and Other In-Browser Threats

The Rise of Third-Party Scripts Modern web applications have become increasingly reliant on external code, services and vendors that execute JavaScript code in the browser... often referred to as third-party scripts. As a close-to-home example shown below, Akamai executes dozens of scripts to...

OpenSC Infinite Recursion Vulnerability

OpenSC is a set of software tools and libraries for smart cards, focusing on smart cards with cryptographic capabilities. An infinite recursion vulnerability exists in iaseccselectfile in libopensc/card-iasecc.c in OpenSC prior to 0.19.0-rc1 when processing responses from IAS-ECC cards. An attack...

Newly Uncovered 'MoneyTaker' Hacker Group Stole Millions from U.S. & Russian Banks

Security researchers have uncovered a previously undetected group of Russian-speaking hackers that has silently been targeting Banks, financial institutions, and legal firms, primarily in the United States, UK, and Russia. Moscow-based security firm Group-IB published a 36-page report on Monday,...

CBI arrests Indian mastermind behind Hire-a-Hacker service on FBI tip-off

For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency 'Central Bureau of Investigation' CBI has arrested a Cyber criminal after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who...

Global Payments Inc. Acknowledges Breach

Following previous announcements from Visa and Mastercard, electronic credit card processor Global Payments Inc. acknowledged late Friday that its system was breached earlier this year. Global Payments announced via press release that a portion of its processing system had been compromised in ear...

Romanian Men Indicting For Hacking 150 Subway Restaurants

Four Romanian nationals were charged with hacking into the credit card processing systems of some 150 Subway sandwich shops and those of 50 other unnamed retailers, according to a copy of the indictment PDF. The four men and two co-conspirators, identified by their online pseudonyms,...