Liar, liar, pants on fire! Barclays phish claims cards explode

We feel compelled to relay the dire warning from this Barclays snail-mail letter, which we acquired through social media, therefore it must be true. Warning: Barclays debit cards may catch fire! The letter reads as follows: Dear costumer, Many of our bank costumers have reported that their debit...

BrilliantTS FUZE card (MCU firmware 0.1.73, BLE firmware 0.7.4)Vulnerability

Description of FUZE Card FUZE is an IoT device the size, shape, and thickness of a normal credit card. You program credit cards into it via Bluetooth BLE using a smart phone app. When you go to pay, you use the buttons and e-Paper display to select which card to emulate. The magnetic stripe...

Goodfellas, the Brazilian carding scene is after you

There are three ways of doing things in the malware business: the right way, the wrong way and the way Brazilians do it. From the early beginnings, using skimmers on ATMs, compromising point of sales systems, or even modifying the hardware of processing devices, Latin America has been a fertile...

Credit Card Breach at Buckle Stores

The Buckle Inc., a clothier that operates more than 450 stores in 44 U.S. states, disclosed Friday that its retail locations were hit by malicious software designed to steal customer credit card data. The disclosure came hours after KrebsOnSecurity contacted the company regarding reports from...

MasterCard launches Credit Card with Built-In Fingerprint Scanner

MasterCard has unveiled its brand new payment card that has a built-in biometric fingerprint scanner, allowing customers to authorize payments with their fingerprint, without requiring a PIN code or a signature. The company is already testing the new biometric payment cards, combined with the...

Massive ATM Hack Hits 3.2 Million Indian Debit Cards — Change Your PIN Now!

India is undergoing the biggest data breaches to date with as many as 3.2 Million debit card details reportedly stolen from multiple banks and financial platforms. The massive financial breach has hit India's biggest banks including State Bank of India SBI, HDFC Bank, Yes Bank, ICICI Bank and Axi...

RIPPER ATM Malware Uses Malicious EMV Chip

Update This story was updated Aug. 31. A never-before-seen malware family known as RIPPER is being blamed for a rash of ATM heists in Thailand last week. The malware, found by researchers at FireEye, is responsible for the theft of 12 million baht $378,000 from ATMs at banks across Thailand. The...

RIPPER ATM Malware and the 12 Million Baht Jackpot

On Aug. 23, 2016, FireEye detected a potentially new ATM malware sample that used some interesting techniques not seen before. To add more fuel to an existing fire, the sample was uploaded to VirusTotal from an IP address in Thailand a couple of minutes before the Bangkok Post newspaper reported...

Researchers Bypass Chip and Pin Protections at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS – Credit card companies for the most part have moved away from “swipe and signature” credit cards to chip and pin cards by this point; the technology known as EMV Europay, MasterCard, and Visa which is supposed to provide consumers with an added layer of security is beginning to see som...

Credit Card Reader NFC (EMV) - Customized SSL, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

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

SumUp – Accept EMV payments - Certificates or keys found, Exported components, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application SumUp – Accept EMV payments published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Home Depot Agrees $19.5 Million To Settle 2014 Breach

Home Depot agreed this week to pay $19.5 million to compensate the 40 million cardholders it said were impacted by a massive 2014 data breach. As part of a proposed settlement by Home Depot, it admits no wrongdoing or liability in the breach, according to court filings with the US District Court...

ModPOS: Highly-Sophisticated, Stealthy Malware Targeting US POS Systems with High Likelihood of Broader Campaigns

Today, iSIGHT Partners is sharing details about a highly sophisticated criminal malware framework that has been used to target point-of-sale POS systems at US-based retailers. We believe this very hard to detect malware is likely being used in broader campaigns and are disclosing details to help...

IC3 Releases Alert on Microchip-Enabled Credit Cards

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert to consumers and merchants about the security risks involved with EMV Cards. An EMV card is a credit or debit card with a microchip that helps protect cardholder data. However, EMV cards may still be vulnerable to exploitation. US-CERT...

Shopify: The POS Firmware is leaking the root Password which can be used for unauthorized access to the device.

The Shopify Point of Sale application is compatible with a new EMV card reader from Miura. The researcher discovered that the firmware for this device contains a wifi password configured in wpasupplicant presumably used during factory tests. However, due to the absence of wifi interface on the...

Chip Cards Finally Come to America – But What Does it Mean for Merchants and Consumers?

Like it or not, today the U.S. finally adopts EMV technology. While the implementation by most major retailers and large U.S. banks is expected to be delayed, the "chip and PIN" card types are coming to America to stay. The real debate is, will EMV adoption do anything for card data security?...

Chip-and-PIN Credit Cards and The Deadline: Here's What You need To Know

October 1 Liability shift ENDS! Today, 1st October 2015, is the deadline for US-based Banks and Retailers to roll out Chip-embedded Credit Cards powered by EVM Technology to customers that will make transactions more secure. EVM Technology stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa -- a global...

Emerging Payment Technologies and Due Diligence: A Warning about “Silver Bullets”

2015 will be an exciting year for the payments industry, especially for merchants that now have a number of new payment technologies at their disposal. Emerging payment technologies such as Point-to-Point-Encryption P2PE, Tokenization, EMV/Chip and Signature and Mobile Payment Acceptance are...

Home Depot Breach Cost Company $43 Million in Third Quarter

The massive Home Depot data breach disclosed earlier this fall involved the theft of 56 million credit and debit card numbers, and now the company has revealed that the incident so far has cost it $43 million. The costs are the result of both the investigation into the data breach as well as the...

American Express Brings Tokenization to Payment Cards

American Express has taken steps toward lifting the burden from retailers having to store payment-card data with the announcement of its American Express Token Service. The service will replace traditional 16-digit credit card numbers with a digital token. Consumers carrying a card supporting the...