Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

“CyberInt researchers have been tracking various activities following the spear-phishing campaign targeting large US-based retailers detected in December 2018.” ” 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. .

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Data Breach Today

JULY 31, 2018

Retailer Revises Breach Impact Upward; 5.9 Million Payment Cards Also Exposed Struggling European electronics giant Dixons Carphone says its investigation into a 2017 data breach has found that 10 million customers' personal details - up from its previous estimate of 1.2 million - were compromised. It previously reported that 5.9

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Researchers from Cyjax reported that a China-based financially motivated group, dubbed Fangxiao, orchestrated a large-scale phishing campaign since 2017. The sophisticated phishing campaign exploits the reputation of international brands and targets businesses in multiple industries, including retail, banking, travel, and energy.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

FlawedGrace is a full-featured RAT that we first observed in November 2017.” ” 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. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint.

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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. FireEye documented obfuscation techniques used by the group in June 2017 and the involvement of PUNCHTRACK POS-scraping malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Government assesses that HIDDEN COBRA actors will continue to use FASTCash tactics to target retail payment systems vulnerable to remote exploitation.” In one incident in 2017, HIDDEN COBRA actors enabled cash to be simultaneously withdrawn from ATMs located in over 30 different countries. ” states the report.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

The subdomains listed above suggest the attackers may also have targeted American retailer Sears ; Green Dot , the world’s largest prepaid card vendor; payment processing firm Elavon ; hosting firm Rackspace ; business consulting firm Avanade ; IT provider PCM ; and French consulting firm Capgemini , among others. internal-message[.]app.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The flaw also affected the Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure, the Fusion Middleware MapViewer, and four three Oracle Retail components. The CVE-2017-5645 flaw resides in the Codehaus versions of Groovy and affected OCA Unified Inventory Management.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2019

Launched in May 2017, the Fuze Card is a data storage device that looks like a regular credit card but can hold account data for up to 30 credit cards. For evidence of this, one need only look to the constant innovations that fraudsters come up with to deploy physical card skimmers at ATMs and retail checkout lanes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. When I began studying this threat, Ursnif campaigns were more widespread and less targeted.

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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. Products containing the malicious backdoor have been found on public school networks throughout the United States.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Japan is considered a global leaked in cryptocurrency technologies, the Bitcoin could be used for payment in the country since April 2017 major retailers accept this kind of payments. Earlier this year, a problem at the Zaif exchange allowed some people to buy cryptocurrencies without paying.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2019

The UK’s biggest retailers are spending more than ever on cyber security but are continuing to see an alarming rise in cyber attacks and data breaches due to the ever-evolving threat landscape, a report has found. Are retailers investing wisely? What are the biggest threats? Where can you start?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2020

Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. authorities in 2017.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Billion malicious login attempts from bots in May and June, an overall number of 30 billion malicious logins were observed between November 2017 and June 2018, an average of 3.75 This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. The experts detected 8.3 billion per month.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

Constella Intelligence , a service that indexes information exposed by public database leaks, shows this email address was used to register an account at the clothing retailer romwe.com, using the password “ 123456xx.” DNS records for worldwiredlabs[.]com Incorporation records from the U.K.’s

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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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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. Previously seen to be exploited in the wild through 2017 and on-going.” ” reads the advisory published by Fortinet. . ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2019

After researching and blocking these resources, Group-IB’s team discovered several other fake websites illegally using famous international brands, including Conad (Italian retail store), Target (International retail stores), Carrefour (international chain of hypermarkets) and many others. How does this scheme work?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

. “A source in the cyber-security community who agreed to contact the seller to obtain samples has confirmed the validity of the data and obtained valid credentials for two accounts, the CEO of a US medium-sized software company and the CFO of an EU-based retail store chain.” ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2022

The US agency received over 95,000 reports from US consumers victims of social media frauds, this marks an 18-fold increase over 2017 reported losses and more than double compared to 2020. Some reports even described ads that impersonated real online retailers that drove people to lookalike websites.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

Dixons Carphone, one of the largest European consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers, suffered a major data breach in 2017 , but new data related to the incident have been shared. ” reads a statement published by the company. ” reads a statement published by the company.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. . 26, 2017 on the now-defunct carding site Joker’s Stash has been tied to a breach at Sonic Drive-In.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

Cybercrime gang tracked as TA505 has been active since 2014 and focusing on Retail and Banking industries. In mid-2017, the group released BitPaymer ransomware (aka FriedEx) that was used in attacks against high profile targets and organizations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

Early April, experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab spotted a new interesting malware sample, likely active since 2017, that was linked to ATMitch attacks. . In the first days of April, our threat monitoring operations spotted a new interesting malware sample possibly active in the wild since 2017. Figure 2: Research of “fwmain32.exe”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. But many Norton users complain the mining program is difficult to remove, and reactions from longtime customers have ranged from unease and disbelief to, “Dude, where’s my crypto?” ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based

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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 cards in 2017; and 9.2 million stolen cards, 4.9 million cards.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2018

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. The basic model featured here retails for $20. a mobile device). .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Compared to its predecessors, the sixth “Hi-Tech Crime Trends” report is the first to contain chapters devoted to the main industries attacked and covers the period from H2 2018 to H1 2019, as compared to the period from H2 2017 to H1 2018. The largest bank card data leaks are related to compromises of US retailers. million to 43.8

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2018

banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM Bank , a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. based ICBA Bancard Inc.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. McLean, Va.-based based ID.me These days, ID.me

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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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

billion in 2017, compared to $1.2 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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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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IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

Only time will tell – and we may not have to wait long – but in the meantime, what is the impact of data breaches in the retail industry, and what needs to be done to mitigate them? This short video breaks down the numbers relating to the UK-specific cyber attacks and data breaches of 2017. increase on the 2017 cost of $3.62

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2018

million USD (+23%) more than in 2017. Such schemes are used by both resellers who sell alcohol online bought from major retailers as well as fraudsters who sell counterfeit products. Group-IB Brand Protection team discovered a total of around 4,000 websites illegally selling alcohol.

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