FTC Releases Alert on Fake Apps for Mobile Devices

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert on fraudulent mobile apps designed to exploit consumers. Some fake apps may steal personal information such as credit card numbers. By taking precautions, users can protect themselves and their private data. US-CERT encourages users and...

Fraudulent Video Ad Bot Rakes in Close to $5 Million Daily

Researchers say a cybercrime group has been earning as much as $3 million to $5 million daily by generating up to 300 million fraudulent video-ad impressions per day. The group behind the ad fraud has created a complex bot farm called Methbot using thousands of proxies and dedicated, deceptive IP...

'MethBot' Ad Fraud Operators Making $5 Million Revenue Every Day

The biggest advertising fraud ever! A group of hackers is making between $3 Million to $5 Million per day from United States brands and media companies in the biggest digital ad fraud ever discovered. Online fraud-prevention firm White Ops uncovered this new Ad fraud campaign, dubbed "Methbot,"...

Turkish Hackers Are Giving Away Prizes For Participating In DDoS Attacks

DDoS has become a game now that could knock any service offline. A Turkish hacking group is encouraging individuals to join its DDoS-for-Points platform that features points and prizes for carrying out distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against a list of predetermined targets. The points...

Hackers Gamifies DDoS Attacks With Collaborative Platform

A Turkish hacking crew is luring participants to join its DDoS platform to compete with peers to earn redeemable points that are exchangeable for hacking tools and click-fraud software. The goal, security researchers say, is to “gamify” DDoS attacks in order to attract a critical mass of hackers...

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...

Distributed Guessing Attack Reels in Payment Card Data

Academics at Newcastle University have proven that an attacker in possession of a minimal amount of existing information can, in an automated way, guess payment card data by exploiting weaknesses in online payment processes. The issue lies in the fact that the global payment system lacks a...

3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers' Private Data at risk

Three, one of UK's biggest mobile operators, has become the latest victim of a massive data breach that reportedly left the personal information and contact details of 6 Million of its customers exposed. The company admitted the data breach late Thursday, saying that computer hackers gained acces...

Chrome memory the bug be exploited by hackers: Google has yet to fix-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to foreign media reports, recently the IT security and protection company Sophos announced that the Chrome browser there is a Bug currently has hackers use. Worse, Google two years ago are aware of this Bug, but until today not yet repaired. ! Chrome memory the bug be exploited by...

TrickBot Banking Trojan Adds New Browser Manipulation Tools

The TrickBot banking Trojan, a close relative to Dyre, has a growing target list and new browser manipulation techniques, experts at IBM X-Force said. “We expect to see it amplify infection campaigns and fraud attacks, sharpen its aim on business and corporate accounts,” wrote Limor Kessem,...

Tesco Bank Stops Online Transactions

Tesco Bank, a U.K. retail bank, today put a halt to online transactions from current accounts after some customers reported over the weekend money missing from their accounts. The bank, which has more than seven million customers, told the BBC that 40,000 accounts were accessed and half of which...

Mirai Vulnerability Disclosed, But Exploits May Constitute Hacking Back

The Mirai botnet apparently has a weakness that could shut down its ability to flood targets with HTTP requests. But exploiting that vulnerability puts defenders in a gray area with regard to hacking back. Researchers at Invincea Labs discovered three vulnerabilities in Mirai, one of which is the...

itBit Exchange: Round error issue -> produce money for free

Due to not proper transfer functionality implementation attacker can produce round error issue. In other words - "make money". Pre-requirements: - attacker has two accounts - one of it is founded Let's look closer: Start balance is : account1 XBT - 100000.00000006 account2 XBT - 0 F128514 Transfe...

Operations of a Brazilian Payment Card Fraud Group

Introduction Brazil has been designated a major hub for financially motivated eCrime threat activity. Brazilian threat actors are targeting domestic and foreign entities and individuals, with frequent targeting of U.S. assets. The country routinely places in "Top Five" lists of various global cyb...

Operations of a Brazilian Payment Card Fraud Group

Introduction Brazil has been designated a major hub for financially motivated eCrime threat activity. Brazilian threat actors are targeting domestic and foreign entities and individuals, with frequent targeting of U.S. assets. The country routinely places in "Top Five" lists of various global cyb...

Operations of a Brazilian Payment Card Fraud Group

Introduction Brazil has been designated a major hub for financially motivated eCrime threat activity. Brazilian threat actors are targeting domestic and foreign entities and individuals, with frequent targeting of U.S. assets. The country routinely places in "Top Five" lists of various global cyb...

SWIFT Confirms Banks Still Being Targeted, Announces Mitigation Tool

SWIFT’s chief information security officer said Wednesday that the cooperative is still seeing cases where its customers’ environments have been compromised. “The threat is persistent, adaptive and sophisticated – and it is here to stay,” Alain Desausoi, the cooperative’s CISO said, adding...

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wordpress plugin adsense-click-fraud-monitoring

WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language by the WordPress Software Foundation. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. The Wordpress plugin adsense-click-fraud-monitoring has a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to the lack ...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Used in AdGholas Malvertising Campaigns

An attack group behind a long-running malvertising campaign made effective use of a previously unreported low-level vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers to rake in money via banking Trojans and ad fraud. Microsoft patched the zero-day this week among dozens of other...

Breaching a CA – Blind Cross-site Scripting (BXSS) in the GeoTrust SSL Operations Panel Using XSS Hunter

This is a continuation of a series of blog posts which will cover blind cross-site scripting XSS and its impact on the internal systems which suffer from it. Previously, we’ve shown that data entered into one part of a website, such as the account information panel, can lead to XSS on internal...