Happy New Fear! Gift-wrapped spam and phishing

Pre-holiday spam Easy money In the run-up to Christmas and New Year, scam е-mails mentioning easy pickings, lottery winnings, and other cash surprises are especially popular. All the more so given how simple it is to adapt existing schemes simply by mentioning the holiday in the subject line. For...

Zero Trust Access: Santa Claus Wasn't the Only One Working Christmas Eve

The days from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day are filled with celebrations. Many companies shut down and encourage their employees to take vacations. However, a sample of data comparing an average work week around the holiday, shows the idea of "downtime" isn't exactly accurate. In fact, many use...

Amazon Takes a Swipe at PayPal's $4 Billion Acquisition

The retail giant warned holiday shoppers that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.” Honey denies the claim...

6 ways hackers are targeting retail businesses

Retail hacking is no new phenomenon, although it has increased in frequency over the last few years. In fact, retailers experienced more breaches than any other industry in 2019, and they've lost over $30 billion to cybersecurity attacks. Both brick-and-mortar and online businesses experience...

Retail Org Cyberattacks Set to Soar 20% in 2019 Holiday Season

As cybercriminals grow more sophisticated and holiday shoppers continue to flock online, researchers warn internet-based retailers could face a 20 percent uptick in cyberattacks this holiday season compared to last year. In the report titled “Holiday Season Cyber Heists”, released Thursday mornin...

holiday-rentals.focus.tv Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1031315 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

holiday-flats.focus.tv Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher devl00p Helped patch 2581 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 15 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting holiday-flats.focus.tv website and its users. Following...

How to Protect Holiday Shoppers from Bots and Scammers

It’s the most wonderful time of year for gift card scammers. With Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holidays just around the corner, consumers will spend billions on gift cards for hard-to-shop-for friends, family, and colleagues. Imperva VP Tiffany Olson Kleemann was interviewed on Good Morning...

Black Friday Shoppers Targeted By Scams and Fake Domains

Black Friday and Cyber Monday-related scams are nothing new — but researchers warn that this year, they are seeing an uptick in scams using more sophisticated methods to lure users to hand over their payment data. Research released Tuesday by ZeroFOX uncovered some of the threats that attackers a...

Securing Portable Electronic Devices During Travel

Holiday travelers often use portable electronic devices PEDs because they offer a range of conveniences, for example, enabling the traveler to order gifts on-the-go, access to online banking, or download boarding passes. However, these devices are vulnerable to cyberattack or theft, resulting in...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 21, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. It’s nearly holiday shopping season, which means it’s prime scam season. On the latest Beers with Talos episode, we run down the best wa...

A reason for the season: Reason antivirus offers 70% off to keep you safe during holiday shopping rush

By Waqas The winter holidays are just around the corner. It’s that time of the year again when computers and other devices are busy with all the online shopping hype. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A reason for the season: Reason antivirus offers 70% off to keep you safe...

A week in security (November 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered statistics and information on a sneaky new Trojan malware for Android, inspected a bevy of current Facebook scams, and explained the importance of securing food and agriculture infrastructure. We also released our latest report on cybercrime tactics and...

ThreatList: Most Retail Hardware Bug Bounty Flaws Are Critical

Almost all of hardware vulnerabilities – 90 percent – that were submitted to retail bug bounty programs so far this year were categorized as critical, showing that Point of Sale systems and other retail hardware assets remain a serious security issue. That’s due to the fact that retail hardware...

E-commerce: Bad bots are ready for the holidays. Are you?

The busiest time for online retailers is almost upon us—the holiday season. Each business is looking at ways to take advantage of cyber week when a significant portion of annual sales are made. At this time, preparation is well underway for Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. But another...

Description of the security update for Outlook 2016: July 9, 2019

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Targeted Security Attacks Impact Holiday Shopping

Part 2 - Security In the first post, web performance was discussed, especially for the mobile visitor. While web performance is critically important, security is also a vital area of focus and investment because, threat actors don't take holidays. They're always out on the internet probing sites,...

Christmas Day was Quiet for Online Retailers But Picked Up Immediately on Boxing Day

Christmas Holiday Retail Sales In early November, eMarketer forecast that the 2018 U.S. online retail holiday sales would be $106 billion, a healthy increase of 16.6% over 2017. The Black Friday & Cyber Monday sales results confirmed that optimistic forecast with a combined total of nearly $14b i...

goaholidayhomes.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-719259 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| goaholidayhomes.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

holiday-invest.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-714471 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| holiday-invest.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidde...