Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub breach

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world's largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been...

Joker's Stash Drops Largest-Ever Credit Card Cache on Dark Web

Joker’s Stash, a Dark Web destination that specializes in trading in payment-card data, has added 1.3 million credit and debit cards to its inventory, belonging to Indian banking customers. Researchers said it’s the largest stolen payment card cache ever put up for sale. According to Group-IB, th...

Hacking Back? BriansClub Dark Web Attack a Boon for Banks

UPDATE A Dark Web “carding store” called BriansClub, which specializes in selling stolen payment card information, has itself become a victim, with thieves making off with 26 million credit- and debit-card records. The site appears to be a target of roundabout “hacking back” by a competitor , who...

When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win

Cybercrime forums have been abuzz this week over news that BriansClub -- one of the underground's largest shops for stolen credit and debit cards -- has been hacked, and its inventory of 26 million cards shared with security contacts in the banking industry. Now it appears this brazen heist may...

“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...

SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks

Until now, I'm sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS. If you are unaware, the name "SimJacker" has...

CVE-2019-15809

Smart cards from the Athena SCS manufacturer, based on the Atmel Toolbox 00.03.11.05 and the AT90SC chip, contain a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operations, to compute the private...

CVE-2019-15809

Smart cards from the Athena SCS manufacturer, based on the Atmel Toolbox 00.03.11.05 and the AT90SC chip, contain a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operations, to compute the private...

CVE-2019-15809

Smart cards from the Athena SCS manufacturer, based on the Atmel Toolbox 00.03.11.05 and the AT90SC chip, contain a timing side channel in ECDSA signature generation. This allows a local attacker, able to measure the duration of hundreds to thousands of signing operations, to compute the private...

More SIM Cards Vulnerable to Simjacker Attack Than Previously Disclosed

In case you missed it. SimJacker vulnerability is concerning because it can be executed: ➡️ against mass audience, ➡️ against devices manufactured by any vendor, ➡️ with just a $10 GSM modem, ➡️ and there's nothing much affected users can do. Details — https://t.co/BPApXsNghe...

More SIM Cards Vulnerable to Simjacker Attack Than Previously Disclosed

In case you missed it. SimJacker vulnerability is concerning because it can be executed: ➡️ against mass audience, ➡️ against devices manufactured by any vendor, ➡️ with just a $10 GSM modem, ➡️ and there's nothing much affected users can do. Details — pic.twitter.com/ByXhMGB0Hl...

The embedded software of Intel NUC Kits, Intel Compute Sticks, and Intel Compute Cards is vulnerable due to insufficient testing of input data. This vulnerability allows attackers to escalate their privileges, disclose sensitive information, or cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the built-in software in Intel NUC Kits, Intel Compute Sticks, and Intel Compute Cards exists due to insufficient testing of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges, expose sensitive information, or cause system failures...

Hackers Hit Click2Gov Bill-Paying Portals in 8 Cities

The new wave of attacks comes after a previous Click2Gov hack compromised 300,000 payment cards...

Payment Card Breach Hits 8 Cities Using Vulnerable Bill Portal

A vulnerable municipality payment software, which previously led to the breach of hundreds of thousands of payment cards in 2017, has been targeted once again. This time it was part of a breach involving of eight cities in August. The hack targets a flaw in Click2Gov software, which is used in...

E-commerce: Bad bots are ready for the holidays. Are you?

The busiest time for online retailers is almost upon us—the holiday season. Each business is looking at ways to take advantage of cyber week when a significant portion of annual sales are made. At this time, preparation is well underway for Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. But another...

Cisco Extends Patch for IPv6 DoS Vulnerability

Cisco has extended its patch for a high-severity IPv6 denial-of-service DoS vulnerability that was first addressed in 2016. The bug CVE-2016-1409 is a vulnerability in the IPv6 packet processing functions of multiple Cisco products, which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a...

Vulnerability Spotlight: AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality remote code execution vulnerability

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Some AMD Radeon cards contain a remote code execution vulnerability in their ATIDXX64.DLL driver. AMD produces the Radeon line of hardware, which includes graphics cards and graphics processing units. This specific vulnerability exists on...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1916-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian DLA-1916-1 : opensc security update

Several security vulnerabilities were fixed in opensc, a set of libraries and utilities to access smart cards that support cryptographic operations. Out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflows and double frees could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smart cards to cause a denial of service...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1916-1] opensc security update

Package : opensc Version : 0.16.0-3+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2018-16391 CVE-2018-16392 CVE-2018-16393 CVE-2018-16418 CVE-2018-16419 CVE-2018-16420 CVE-2018-16421 CVE-2018-16422 CVE-2018-16423 CVE-2018-16424 CVE-2018-16425 CVE-2018-16426 CVE-2018-16427 CVE-2019-15945 CVE-2019-15946 Debian Bug : 909444...