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Million cloud mailbox register logic flaws-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
Million network top level domain names sent to cloud mailbox activity, the cloud mailbox can be any resolution, may lead to phishing or fraud, specifically the details look at the following graphic, the language is not too easily described Some time ago promising a domain name, ready for...
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss This Week's Microsoft Takedown
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Microsoft malware takedown, its legal and security implications and the revelation of a massive financial fraud campaign in Brazil. Download: digitalunderground157.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...
Brazilian Payment Fraud Campaign Steals Billions
UPDATE–Hackers are targeting Brazil’s Boleto payment system, the second most popular payment method in the country, and have conducted hundreds of thousands of fraudulent transactions, though researchers differ over how much money has been stolen. Formally known as Boleto Bancario, Boletos are...
New Android Malware 'HijackRAT' Attacks Mobile Banking Users
Cybercriminals have rolled out a new malicious Android application that wraps different varieties of banking fraud trick into a single piece of advanced mobile malware. GOOGLE SERVICE FRAMEWORK - APPLICATION OR MALWARE? Security researchers at the security firm FireEye have came across a maliciou...
Subex Nikira Fraud Management System GUI 'message' Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38311/info The Subex Nikira Fraud Management System GUI is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary...
Luuuk Bank Fraud Campaign Nets €500K in One Week
A fraud campaign siphoned more than half a million dollars from a European bank over the course of a week earlier this year, researchers with Kaspersky Lab announced this week. The campaign, dubbed Luuuk, extracted €500,000 roughly $679,700 USD from 190 victims, mostly in Italy and Turkey, from...
FBI, European Authorities Go After GameOver Zeus Botnet
UPDATE–Law enforcement agencies in Europe and the United States, including Europol and the FBI, ran a coordinated takedown of the GameOver Zeus botnet on Friday, seizing servers and disrupting the botnet’s operation. Authorities say that the same botnet has been used to distribute the CryptoLocke...
Fraudsters Physically Deploy Malicious Software to Hack ATMs
Criminals will not let any way to cheat an ATM machine out of its cash, as it’s one of the easiest way for them to get the hands on cash. ATM skimmers have now discovered a new and high-tech approach to target cash machines directly by inserting a physical notorious device into it instead...
Threat Outbreak Alert: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Code on May 27, 2014
Medium Alert ID: 34359 First Published: 2014 May 27 16:28 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages related to bank fraud. The email message attempts to persuade the recipient to open the attachment for details. However, the .zip...
Chip and PIN EMV Protocol security vulnerabilities found
Chip-and-PIN payment cards are coming to the United States after a long head start as a standard card-present payment method in Europe and Asia. Already, retailer Target accelerated its plan to move its branded debit and credit cards to chip-and-PIN, also known as EMV Europay, MasterCard and Visa...
Pre-Play Vulnerability Allows Chip-and-PIN Payment Card Cloning
In March this year, we reported that the major card distributor companies, VISA and Mastercard are migrating to EMV chip cards, also known as PIN-and-Chip cards. Unlike traditional magnetic stripe payment cards, EMV chip cards generates a unique code for every transaction, making it nearly...
Book Review: Hacking Point of Sale, In-Depth Study on Payment Applications
Point-of-sale POS is the hottest topic in payment structures and its one of the most popular technology topics as well. A Point-of-sale POS machine is a computerized replacement for a cash register. It has ability to quickly process a customer's transaction, accurately keep the records, process...
Ancient 'STONED' Virus Signatures found in Bitcoin Blockchain
If you are dealing in cryptocurrency Bitcoin and have Microsoft's Security Essentials MSE installed on your system, then you could be infected by a virus called "DOS/STONED" from the Bitcoin BlockChain. With a number of high-profile cases of fraud, theft, and technical incompetence against the...
Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Credit Card Transaction Email Messages on May 14, 2014
Medium Alert ID: 34236 First Published: 2014 May 15 12:00 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an unauthorized credit card transaction notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...
Regulators Planning Cybersecurity Assessments for Banks
A government agency in charge of developing standards for the nation’s banks announced last week that it will work harder to try to identify vulnerabilities in smaller community banks and that it’s planning to better raise awareness when it comes to cyber threats. The Federal Financial Institutio...
Beware! Cyber Criminals Spreading Click Fraud Trojan for Making Money
Before Ransomware, Click fraud was one of the popular and efficient ways for cybercriminals to make money and with the explosive growth in the size of the online threats it is still making its way on the Internet. “Click-Fraud” is the practice of deceptively clicking on search ads with the...
Microsoft Identifies New Malware Dropping Sefnit Botnet
Plenty has been written about the Sefnit malware family and its favor with using Tor to mask communication, as well as the money it’s made for criminals via click-fraud schemes. Sefnit, however, has had a pair of accomplices that until recently were regarded as harmless programs by most security...
Click-Fraud Sefnit Variant Shuns Tor for SSH
Sefnit was the first malware family to shed light on the problem of botnets and other malicious code using the Tor anonymity network as a communication protocol. While others before and since have done the same, Sefnit made the biggest splash at the end of last summer when the botnet caused a 600...
DDoS Attacks a Cover for Financial Fraud, IP Theft
It’s difficult to imagine a noisier attack than a distributed denial-of-service attack. They’re an ever-present threat to banks and other businesses where the uptime of Web-based services is critical to customers and the well-being of an enterprise. And as a handful proved throughout 2013, they a...
First Paid Fake Android Antivirus App Downloaded 10,000 times from Google Play Store
Well, we all are very conscious, when it comes to the security of our personal information, security of our financial data and security of everything related to us. In the world of Smart devices where our Smartphones knows more than we know ourselves. To keep our device protected from harmful...