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Spear-Phishing Attack Spoofs EE To Target Executives
Researchers warn of an ongoing spear-phishing attack mimicking a well-known telecommunications company, EE, to snatch up corporate executives’ credentials and payment details. Highly targeted emails have been sent to a few executives – including one at a leading financial firm – purporting to be...
Nintendo accounts are being hacked for fraudulent transactions
By Waqas It all started when Nintendo users took the issue on Twitter complaining that their Nintendo accounts are being hacked. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nintendo accounts are being hacked for fraudulent transactions...
'ICEBUCKET" Streaming TV Fraudsters Steal Millions of Ad Dollars in 'ICEBUCKET' Attack
A massive television ad fraud campaign that abuses the programmatic advertising ecosystem for connected TV CTV has successfully impersonated more than 2 million people in over 30 countries so far during its run, defrauding more than 300 different brands out of their ad dollars. The recently...
Overlay Malware Exploits Chrome Browser, Targets Banks and Heads to Spain
Researchers are warning of a remote overlay malware attack that leverages a fake Chrome browser plugin to target the accounts of banking customers in Spain. Grandoreiro is a type of remote overlay banking trojan, designed to help attackers overtake devices and display a full-screen overlay image...
Tupperware Cyberattack Stores Away Customer Payment Cards
Cybercriminals hacked the official website of Tupperware, the popular food container giant, injecting a payment card skimmer into its checkout page in hopes of stealing the credit-card details of online customers. The attackers targeted the official Tupperware.com website, which averages close to...
Criminals hack Tupperware website with credit card skimmer
Update 2: A spokesperson for Tupperware has given a public statement to Alex Scroxton, Security Editor at ComputerWeekly. You can read it here. Update: Following our blog post, we continued to monitor the Tupperware website. As of 03/25 at 1:45 PM PT, we noticed that the malicious PNG file had be...
Fake Coronavirus ‘Vaccine’ Website Busted in DoJ Takedown
The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website, “coronavirusmedicalkit.com,” was purporting to gi...
Fake Coronavirus ‘Vaccine’ Website Busted in DoJ Takedown
The Department of Justice has raised its first federal court action against online fraud relating to the coronavirus pandemic, on Sunday taking steps to shutter a fraudulent website that claimed to give away free coronavirus vaccines. The website, “coronavirusmedicalkit.com,” was purporting to gi...
Loyalty Cards Targeted in Tesco Clubcard Attack
U.K. supermarket giant Tesco is warning on a credential-stuffing attack that potentially affects 600,000 members of its Clubcard loyalty program. It said that it detected cybercriminals trying out different name and password combos, gleaned from a database of stolen usernames and passwords for...
Domen toolkit gets back to work with new malvertising campaign
Last year, we documented a new social engineering toolkit we called "Domen" being used in the wild. Threat actors were using this kit to trick visitors into visiting compromised websites and installing malware under the guise of a browser update or missing font. Despite being a robust toolkit, we...
Hackers Cashing In On Healthcare Industry Security Weaknesses
SAN FRANCISCO – Cybercriminals are pushing boundaries in looking for new ways to cash in on the healthcare space – whether it is persuading desperate patients to download health information apps that actually infect their devices with malware, attacking hospitals with ransomware attacks or even...
Encoding Stolen Credit Card Data on Barcodes
Crooks are constantly dreaming up new ways to use and conceal stolen credit card data. According to the U.S. Secret Service, the latest scheme involves stolen card information embedded in barcodes affixed to phony money network rewards cards. The scammers then pay for merchandise by instructing a...
Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads
A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program. In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher's ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google's...
CamuBot Banking Trojan Returns In Targeted Attacks
The CamuBot malware, known for targeting Brazilian bank customers, has returned in a slew of recent offensives. The latest wave of attacks are highly personalized and, unlike previous campaigns, target victims’ mobile banking apps as an extra step to evade detection when making fraudulent...
The DOJ Is Finally Suing US Telecom Providers for Robocalls
The defendants have allegedly connected hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls to US residents...
Pairing Privacy and Security with Digital Identities in Retail
As today’s customer expectations for digital shopping continue to escalate, many online retailers are leveraging consumers’ unique digital identities to provide a seamless and secure account registration and login process. However, it’s important to recognize the security and privacy implications...
Mail.ru: [fleet.city-mobil.ru] Driver balance increasing
Partner's account with manager role could perform fraudulent funds withdrawal via driver's account...
Black Friday Alert 2019: Net Shopping Bag of Threats
Every year, Kaspersky releases an annual Black Friday alert to highlight how fraudsters may capitalize on increased levels of online shopping at this time of year when many brands are offering their customers appealing discounts. In the rush to get a big discount or, even more panic-inducing, a...
Web skimmer phishes credit card data via rogue payment service platform
Heading into the holiday shopping season, we have been tracking increased activity from a threat group registering domains for skimming and phishing campaigns. While most of the campaigns implemented a web skimmer in the typical fashion—grabbing and exfiltrating data from a merchant's checkout pa...