SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers

China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: Phishing kits for mass-creating fake but convincing e-commerce websites that convert customer payment...

Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad

Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers impersonate hundreds of trusted brands, blast out text message lures, and convert phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and...

China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks

China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called "Smishing Triad " mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts say these groups a...

Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing

Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were created through...

Hardware Crypto Wallets vs. Mobile vs. Desktop: Which Should You Choose?

Crypto wallets are essential in keeping your cryptocurrency safe. There are different types of wallets available and choosing…...

How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

Carding -- the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data -- has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovati...

PT-2021-05: Lack of Amount/CVMResults fields checking for Public Transport Schemes

Mobile wallets allow to charge one amount within the Public Transport Scheme' cryptogram and charge a different amount using any payment terminal in the end. This is due to EMV standards and is a requirement for modern payments when the price shown on the terminal is different from the actual...

PT-2021-06: Lack of integrity checks of the MCC field

EMV used as a predecessor of mobile wallets does not require putting some mandatory fields as a cryptogram input. These fields are crucial for risk management steps, and their tampering can bypass payment restrictions. Alternatively, mobile wallets should send the information about the type of...

Thousands of App Store games and App Store security vulnerability susceptible to hacker attacks-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A leading network security company released research report, Apple's App Store has more than 1 0 0 0 app there is a security vulnerability, susceptible to hack attacks. A product called JSPatch used to help developers modify the application software, a security vulnerability exists, which makes i...