Regulators To US Banks: Be Vigilant of ATM Fraud, DDoS

U.S. regulators are warning banks this week about a recent rash of “large dollar value” ATM fraud and the ongoing risks distributed denial of service DDoS attacks that target public bank websites can pose. Members of FFIEC, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency se...

Amazon Web Services Combing Third Parties for Credentials

Amazon Web Services is actively searching a number of sources, including code repositories and application stores, looking for exposed credentials that could put users’ accounts and services at risk. A week ago, a security consultant in Australia said that as many as 10,000 secret Amazon Web...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Fraud Notification Email Messages on March 28, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33550 First Published: 2014 March 28 20:49 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank fraud notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Malware Attacks Against Linux 2.6 Websites

The risks presented by unsupported operating systems are being called out in a large-scale attack on hundreds of websites. Hackers have hit web servers running a version of the Linux 2.6 kernel released seven years ago. The result is a multistage attack where compromised websites are spiked with...

Sally Beauty Supply Acknowledges Breach of 25K

Twelve days after acknowledging that someone attempted to breach its system, Sally Beauty Supply confirmed this week that an attacker was able to penetrate the company and make off with fewer than 25,000 records of its customers’ sensitive banking information. The chain’s parent company Sally...

Millions of Customer Records Leaked in Experian ID Theft Case

An ongoing investigative report has revealed that a man posing as a private investigator may have compromised millions of Americans’ personal and financial records from 2007 to 2013. The news is the latest fallout from last year’s discovery that Experian, one of the “big three” national credit...

Tor Network used to Host 900 Botnets and hidden Darknet Markets

Tor network offers users browse the Internet anonymously and is mostly used by activists, journalists to conceal their online activities from prying eyes. But it also has the Dark side, as Tor is also a Deep Web friendly tool that allows hackers and cyber criminals to carry out illicit activities...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Email Messages with Malicious Attachment on March 6, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33230 First Published: 2014 March 6 19:57 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that contain a malicious attachment relating to banking fraud for the recipient. The email message attempts to convince the recipient t...

Microsoft, Kaspersky Shed Light on Sefnit Tor Botnet

Alarm bells went off last August when spikes in Tor client downloads were traced to a large click-fraud and Bitcoin-mining botnet called Sefnit. The malware was using the popular anonymity network to communicate with hackers in order to transmit stolen data and receive additional commands. In...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Money Gram Fraud Notification Email Messages on February 27, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33112 First Published: 2014 February 28 14:10 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain a Money Gram fraud notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...

Chrome Pop-Up Warns Windows Users of Browser Hijacking

A rising number of online scams involve the modification of browser settings where a hacker spikes a free download or website with malware. The end result is generally a click-fraud scheme of some kind where the new browser settings might include spiked search engine pages or a new home page...

SpyEye creator pleads guilty in U.S Federal Court

Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, one of the alleged masterminds behind the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, pleaded guilty in an Atlanta courtroom yesterday to conspiracy charges relating to the development and distribution of the the malware. Panin pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire and bank...

Neiman Marcus Says 1.1M Cards Compromised in Data Breach

The attackers who penetrated the Neiman Marcus network last year were on the network for at least three months and made off with credit and debit card data belonging to 1.1 million customers. The company said that the data breach was the result of a compromise that began in mid-July and ran until...

Bluetooth Gas Pump Skimmer Scam Nets $2 Million

Thirteen men were indicted this week for allegedly using Bluetooth-enabled skimmers to steal more than $2 million from customers at gas stations across the Southern United States between 2012 and 2013. Documents released on Tuesday by the offices of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr...

Hack or attempt to Hack, you may face 20 years in prison

The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman 'Patrick Leahy' reintroduced a revamped version of the "Personal Data Privacy and Security Act" for tough criminal penalties for hackers, that he originally authored in 2005. During last Christmas Holidays, a massive data breach had occurred at the shopping...

DailyMotion Hosting Malvertising Leading to Fake AV Attack

Video-sharing site DailyMotion, one of the most popular destinations on the Web, is in the throes of an attack where it is serving malicious ads redirecting users to a fake AV scam. Security firm Invincea reported the issue to the website, and as of 4 p.m. ET, DailyMotion was still serving the fa...

Yahoo Removes Ads Redirecting to Magnitude Exploit Kit

The race to replace the Blackhole Exploit Kit as the web exploit pack of choice for cybercriminals seems to have an early leader in Magnitude. Researchers at Dutch security firm Fox-IT reported over the weekend that European visitors to Yahoo were falling victim to malicious ads hosted on the sit...

Encrypted PINs Stolen in Target Data Breach

Target confirmed this morning that encrypted PIN data was stolen in the Black Friday data breach that exposed 40 million accounts to fraud. Spokesperson Molly Snyder said the ongoing forensics investigation confirmed that PIN data was accessed as well, contrary to previous claims made by the reta...

Microsoft Says ZeroAccess Click-Fraud Botnet Abandoned

Microsoft is declaring the ZeroAccess botnet dead. Two weeks after obtaining a court order to disrupt the botnet’s ability to carry out click-fraud, assistant general counsel Richard Boscovich of Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit said late last week that the botmasters behind ZeroAccess had abandon...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Credit Card Transaction Report Email Messages on December 19, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 32231 First Published: 2013 December 19 17:37 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a credit card transaction notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince...