Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

The flawed app is called Verizon Retail Demo Mode (“com.customermobile.preload.vzw”) and requires dozens of permissions for its execution. The app has been present since August 2016 [ 1 , 2 ], but there is no evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited in the wild.

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Retail Data breaches Sales Passwords 359

Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

In August 2016, security expert Martin Vigo devised a method to abuse an optional SMS-based feature that allowed users to authorize payments by replying to an SMS message with a provided 6-digit code. Researcher leaked online a dataset containing over 7,000,000 transactions scraped from the Venmo public API.

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Retail Privacy Access Security 275

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

According to the company, they have over 600,000 Cameras and 50,000 Recorders installed all over the world in multiple sectors such as Banking, Retail, Government, etc. “Another notable spike to mention is IPS detections related to MVPower CCTV DVR models (CVE-2016-20016) also known as JAWS webserver RCE.

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Authentication Retail Education Marketing 246

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Human Security identified a supply chain of a Chinese manufacturer that was compromised to backdoor the firmware of several products delivered to resellers, physical retail stores and e-commerce warehouses.

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e-Discovery Retail Manufacturing Security 363

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

. “The cyber criminals typically create fraudulent copies of legitimate cards by sending stolen card data to co-conspirators who imprint the data on reusable magnetic strip cards, such as gift cards purchased at retail stores,” the FBI warned. All told, the attackers managed to siphon almost $570,000 in the 2016 attack.

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Phishing Authentication Retail Encryption 228

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Ferizi is the first man charged with cyber terrorism that was extradited to the US early 2016. The KHS breached a database of a US retailer was able to identify the records belonging to military and government personnel. The man was charged with hacking crimes and providing support to a terrorist organization.

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Military Government Retail Personal data 249

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

.” Gemini’s director of research Stas Alforov stressed that some of the 30 million cards advertised for sale as part of this BIGBADABOOM batch may in fact be sourced from breaches at other retailers, something Joker’s Stash has been known to do in previous large batches. The company found the median price of U.S.

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Sales Retail Security Encryption 332

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

” The TA505 group was first spotted by Proofpoint back 2017, it has been active at least since 2015 and targets organizations in financial and retail industries. “On December 13, 2018, we observed another large ServHelper “downloader” campaign targeting retail and financial services customers.”

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IT Financial Services Ransomware Retail 279

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan between 2015 and 2016, most of the victims were in the United States and Europe. The GozNym has been seen targeting banking institutions, credit unions, and retail banks.

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Computer and Electronics Retail Access Security 229

Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

One security expert at a PCM customer who was recently notified about the incident said the intruders appeared primarily interested in stealing information that could be used to conduct gift card fraud at various retailers and financial institutions. earlier this year.

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Cloud Retail Access Government 274

Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S., South Korean, and Europe.

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Energy and Utilities IT Communications Retail 255

Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

In September 2016, MrMurza sent a message to all iSocks users saying the service would soon be phased out in favor of Faceless, and that existing iSocks users could register at Faceless for free if they did so quickly — before Faceless began charging new users registration fees between $50 and $100. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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Passwords IoT Sales Retail 292

Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. At the time, FireEye and root9B published detailed reports about a series of attacks targeting the retail sector.

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Phishing Retail Communications Security 268

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. Prometei has been observed to be active in systems across a variety of industries, including: Finance, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities, Travel, and Construction.”

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Mining Retail Insurance Manufacturing 248

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ).

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Retail Data breaches Encryption Mining 66

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

“The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.” million card records for sale, in 2016, 2.89 million stolen cards, 4.9

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Sales Retail Archiving Marketing 184

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2020

Experts from Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab have spotted new attack attempts directed to some Italian companies operating in the Retail sector linked to Aggah campaign. Recently, during our Cyber Defence monitoring operations, we spotted other attack attempts directed to some Italian companies operating in the Retail sector. Introduction.

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Retail IT Communications Access 334

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

net circa 2016, which shows it was the homepage of a pay-per-install affiliate program that incentivized the silent installation of 911’s proxy software. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net Riley Kilmer , co-founder of the proxy-tracking service Spur.us , said 911’s network will be difficult to replicate in the short run.

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Data breaches Retail Sales IT 317

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A 2016 screen shot of the Joker’s Stash homepage. retailers, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord and Taylor , Bebe Stores , Hilton Hotels , Jason’s Deli , Whole Foods , Chipotle , Wawa , Sonic Drive-In , the Hy-Vee supermarket chain , Buca Di Beppo , and Dickey’s BBQ. The links have been redacted.

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Ransomware Retail Government Sales 292

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

billion in 2016. It also leads to a decrease in what we call the psychological price, i.e. the cost that customers are willing to pay for a product from the official retailer. According to Group-IB, the online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has increased by 23% in a year and totaled more than $1.5

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Marketing Phishing Retail Data collection 260

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

FIN8 is a financially motivated group that has been active since at least 2016 and often targets the POS environments of the retail, restaurant, and hospitality merchants to harvest payment account data.

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Sales Phishing Access Retail 241

The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 2, 2018

The CBA’s acting group executive for retail banking services, Angus Sullivan, issued a video statement on YouTube after BuzzFeed Australia published an article about the incident on Wednesday.

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Retail IT 97

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

In late April 2019, KrebsOnSecurity received a tip from an online retailer who’d seen an unusual number of suspicious transactions originating from a series of Internet addresses assigned to a relatively new Internet provider based in Maryland called Residential Networking Solutions LLC.

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Retail Sales Marketing IT 246

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Assuming privacy concerns get addressed, much wider consumer uses are envisioned in areas such as marketing, retailing and health services. According to Allied Market Research, the facial recognition systems market is in the midst of rising at a compounded annual growth rate of 21% between 2016 to 2022. billion by 2022.

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Privacy Authentication Marketing Retail 153

The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Oracle launched OCI in October 2016. Honoring data sovereignty Name any business use case: banking, retail, healthcare, government, military, entertainment, elections. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup. Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010.

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Cloud Digital transformation Military Retail 195

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In 2016, 108.5 This year is expected to see similarly high numbers which is paralleled by increasing retailer anxiety about the state of their cybersecurity. In fact, according to our recent survey of retailers , 88% feel vulnerable to data threats. million Americans shopped online over the long weekend.

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Risk Retail Digital transformation Authentication 90

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Demisto launched in May 2016.

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Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

CGI

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Fri, 11/11/2016 - 01:07. On June 20, 2016, CGI held a roundtable discussion on dynamic rating and pricing in the insurance industry that involved nearly all major Dutch insurers. Pricing is highly developed in the retail sector and often is strategically positioned within an organization directly under the CEO. Dynamic pricing.

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Insurance Retail Sales Risk 69

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. Even though U.S.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Access 288

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Markets and Use Cases In 2015, when IBM launched the X-Force Exchange it noted that six of the world’s top 10 retailers and five of the world’s top 10 banks were part of the 1,000+ organizations contributing to the X-Force Exchange threat database. In 2016, IBM also announced shared threat intelligence feeds with Check Point.

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Retail Cloud Access Privacy 97

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s worth noting that there’s no reason a legitimate retailer would need that last one — the skeleton key to your identity — to process a purchase.). Shop at reputable and recognizable retailers. If you’re shopping at a retailer that is new to you, research the company’s standing on the Better Business Bureau website.

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Retail e-Delivery Passwords Phishing 97

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2021

In late 2019, the Claimant issued proceedings and sought various relief, including in connection with an allegation that the Defendant had failed to provide data, contrary to the Data Protection Act 2018 ( “DPA 18” ) and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ( “GDPR” ).

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Access GDPR Personal data Retail 122

TAB OnRecord

DECEMBER 21, 2017

According to BDO’s analysis from the perspective of retailers, the most effective promotion for holiday season success is applying discounts. Another finding from that analysis shows us that C-level retailers are perceiving price competition as the greatest challenge in the holiday season. The second retailer sells the N?ke

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Retail Marketing Sales IT 90

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recent judicial interpretations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), 740 ILCS 14, present potential litigation risks for retailers who employ biometric-capture technology, such as facial recognition, retina scan or fingerprint software. 1540 (2016) purposes by alleging a violation of his right to privacy.

Privacy 53

Privacy Retail Marketing Risk 53

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 12, 2016

The GDPR will significantly change EU data protection law in several areas, affecting all businesses in the energy, financial, health care, real estate, manufacturing, retail, technology and transportation industries, among others. enforcement, sanctions and penalties. supervisory authorities. accountability. privacy by design and by default.

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GDPR Retail Manufacturing Privacy 40

IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

India-based electronics retailer Vijay Sales made to pay for misconfigured database (unknown). Settlement reached in lawsuit over 2016 hack of Quest Diagnostics. Names of Montenegrin coronavirus patients published on social media (2). Chinese microblogging site Weibo confirms that user records were leaked (538 million). In other news….

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 143

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Claimants claimed damages for misuse of confidential information, breach of confidence, negligence, damages under Article 82 of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/279 and s169 Data Protection Act 2018 1 , plus a declaration and an injunction, interest and further or other relief. 3 Vidal-Hall v Google [2016] QB 1003.

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Retail Data breaches Personal data Privacy 91