Mexico’s Banking System Sees $18M Siphoned Off in Phantom Transactions

Somewhere between $18 million to $20 million has gone missing during unauthorized interbank money transfers in Mexico’s central banking system. Authorities are investigating the shadow transactions, but answers are thus far scarce. The affected banks and government officials are determining wheth...

Chili’s Doesn’t Leave Data Breach on the Back Burner

Southwestern/Texas-themed restaurant chain Chili’s has become the latest victim of a data breach involving the heist of point-of-sale information from payment cards — and the alacrity with which it has admitted the incident is notable. Hackers had unauthorized access to payment-card data between...

Panda Banking Trojan Diversifies into Cryptocurrency, Porn, Other Targets

The Panda banking trojan, a spin-off from the infamous Zeus malware, is widening its net to attack more than just financial services targets, as seen in three ongoing campaigns discovered in May. The Windows-focused Panda is far from the cuddly thing its name would suggest. It has a full arsenal ...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32715: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on May 8, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 57823 First Published: 2018 May 8 16:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID32715 may contain the following files: Name | Size ...

secure.sysco.ch XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-613815 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| secure.sysco.ch Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

FBI Releases IC3 2017 Internet Crime Report

FBI has released the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 2017 Internet Crime Report, which highlights scams trending online. The top three crime types reported by victims in 2017 were non-payment/non-delivery, personal data breach, and phishing. Hot topics for 2017 include ransomware, business...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32587: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 26, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 57610 First Published: 2018 April 30 14:11 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID32587 may contain the following files: Name| Siz...

Uber Tightens Bug Bounty Extortion Policies

Uber is tightening policies around its bug-bounty program after a 2016 data breach exposed deep flaws in its policies around handling extortion. The ride-sharing company has updated its program to include clarity around the boundaries between research versus blackmail. The changes come after a 20...

Securing financial data of the future: behavioral biometrics explained

Some of us would be pretty excited about a brave, new passwordless world. Gone would be the days of having to write down 27 passwords and post them beside monitor screens. Or having to yell them out loud to a colleague on the other side of the room. For banks and other financial institutions, a...

Vendor Risk Bites Sears, Delta and Best Buy, while Saks, Lord & Taylor Deal With Breach

Data breaches dominated the cyber security headlines last week, as Sears, Delta, Best Buy, Saks, and Lord & Taylor all found themselves in the news. Sears, Delta and Best Buy: Another vendor risk incident What do retail giant Sears Holdings, consumer electronics chain Best Buy and Delta Air Lines...

Impact Of Chat Service Breach Expands To Best Buy, Kmart

The number of companies coming forward as victims of a data breach – that potentially exposed hundreds of thousands of credit card payment information – has expanded to include Best Buy and Kmart. Last week, software service provider 247.ai, a company that provides online chat services for Delta,...

Delta, Sears Breaches Blamed on Malware Attack Against a Third-Party Chat Service

Security researchers are pinning a recent data breach – that potentially exposed the credit card information of hundreds of thousands of Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings customers – on weak third-party security policies. The cyberattack hit software service provider 247.ai, a company that...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32372: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 4, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 57399 First Published: 2018 April 4 22:50 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID32372 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Sleuthing the Cloud: The Challenges of Forensics in Cloud Environments

More and more companies are embracing Cloud computing for the practicality, efficiency, and economy of outsourcing the housing, maintenance, and monitoring of applications and their associated infrastructure to a third-party provider. As the Cloud becomes more the norm than the exception, there i...

A week in security (March 26 – April 01)

Last week, we looked at the thought process behind creating a ransomware decryptor, the inner workings of QuantLoader, the ways one can protect their Android devices, the exploit kits we have encountered this winter, the now-known epidemic of data breaches, the coming of TLS 1.3, and the ways one...

Lord & Taylor & Saks customers payment cards stolen, sold on Dark Web

By Carolina Apparently, FIN7 hackers are behind the breach - The same This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lord & Taylor & Saks customers payment cards stolen, sold on Dark Web...

dtime.store XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-594849 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| dtime.store Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

You down with P2P? 10 tips to secure your mobile payment app

If you look at the figures, you cannot deny that the eCommerce industry is steadily growing. More and more people are doing their shopping online, not only for products and services geared toward the use of technologies and the Internet, but also for items previously only found in brick and morta...

Bluefin (Ingenico) IPP320 failing to communicate with Sage Exchange Desktop via ICA Channel Serial COM Port

Serial COM port redirected device Bluefin Ingenico IPP320 with encryption, fails to complete the communication with the Sage Payment Solutions...

Feds Take On Foreign Hackers, While 880K Orbitz Customers “Likely” Affected by Data Breach

In this edition of Qualys’ infosec news digest, we look at Orbitz’s data breach, AMD’s vulnerabilities controversy, and recent actions by the U.S. government against alleged Russian and Iranian cyber spies. Orbitz was kinda, sorta, maybe hacked Orbitz disclosed last week that personal information...