Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2019

Security experts at riskIQ revealed today that another two organizations were victims of Magecart crime gang, the bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep. Security experts at RiskIQ announced that the two bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep were victims of the Magecart cybercrime gang. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Cyber security firm Venafi announced it has uncovered lookalike domains with valid TLS certificates that appear to target major retailers. is a private cybersecurity company that develops software to secure and protect cryptographic keys and digital certificates. retailers with over 49,500 typosquatted domains.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Kvashuk is a Ukrainian citizen living in Renton, Washngton, was responsible for helping test Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. The man was involved in the testing of Microsoft’s online retail sales platform and abused testing access to steal “currency stored value” (CSV) such as digital gift cards. million in restitution.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

Security experts at CyberInt uncovered a new campaign of a Russian financially motivated threat actor tracked as TA505. “CyberInt researchers have been tracking various activities following the spear-phishing campaign targeting large US-based retailers detected in December 2018.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Online Retailer LightInTheBox exposes unsecured DB containing 1.3TB of web server logs. Negative opinion of Italy security committee Copasir on Huawei, ZTE 5G solutions. Watch out, hackers are targeting CVE-2018-0296 Cisco fixed in 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Another fashion retailer suffered a data breach, the victim is SHEIN that announces the security breach affected 6.42 The retailer hired a forensic cybersecurity firm as well as an international law firm to investigate the security breach. Security Affairs – hacking, data breach ). million customers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018. Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. Security Affairs – Newsletter ).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2018

Chinese-owned telecommunications firm Huawei has been banned from Australia’s 5G network due to security concerns. Has safely & securely delivered wireless technology in Aust for close to 15 yrs. — Huawei Australia (@HuaweiOZ) August 22, 2018. Huawei Australia defined the decision disappointing.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie. At this time, the vendor has yet to release security patches to address the flaw.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. Millets, Blacks, Scotts and MilletSport.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The man pleaded guilty to the same Bondars’s charges in March 2018. Scan4you service allows its customers to develop malicious codes that were used to steal millions of payment cards from retail stores across the world, it has been estimated that overall losses account for $20.5 billion. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With this, they deceived the employees of phone stores to obtain duplicate SIM cards and, in this way, have access to the bank’s security confirmation messages. In this way they could operate in online banking and access bank accounts to empty them after receiving security confirmation messages from the banks.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Set strict security protocols enabling employees to effectively verify customer credentials before changing their numbers to a new device.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

As a California-based provider of POS technology for the retail and hospitality sector, a successful infection would allow the group to obtain payment card data and later sell the information on online marketplaces.” “ The threat actors employed a variation of a JavaScript backdoor used by the FIN7 group since at least 2018. .

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers’ privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah. That’s because very few of the world’s biggest companies list any security executives in their highest ranks. banks) would have this role in their executive leadership team.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

According to the local media, in April 2018 the hacker found a serious security vulnerability in the website of the telco company, he exploited the issue to penetrate the telecommunications network. The post Hacker who reported a flaw in Hungarian Magyar Telekom faces up to 8-years in jail appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. “In November 2018, TA505 , a prolific actor that has been at the forefront of this trend, began distributing a new backdoor we named “ServHelper”.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

In addition to the monetary costs associated with things like lost productivity and improving network security to reduce the likelihood of future incidents, affected companies have to deal with the costs tied to reduced customer trust and damaged reputations. People are becoming less tolerant of retailers that have widescale data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The parent firm of bling retailers Jared and Kay Jewelers has fixed a bug in the Web sites of both companies that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. Data exposures like these are some of the most common yet preventable for online retailers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Cybersecurity researchers at Human Security discovered a global network of consumer products, dubbed BADBOX, with firmware backdoors installed and sold through a compromised hardware supply chain. ” reads the report published by Human Security. The only way to remove the threat is to wipe the smartphone and reinstall the OS.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

“The group’s shifting monetization methods—from point-of-sale (POS) malware in 2018, to ransomware in 2019, and hybrid extortion in 2020—is part of a larger trend in which criminal actors have increasingly focused on post-compromise ransomware deployment and data theft extortion.” ” reads the analysis published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of Shopin , Eran Eyal, for allegedly running $42 million scam ICO. “Retail investors considering an investment in a digital asset that meets the definition of a security must be afforded the same truthful disclosures as in any traditional securities offering.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . · Australia banned Huawei from 5G network due to security concerns. · The restaurant chain Cheddars Scratch Kitchen has suffered a payment card breach. Security Affairs – Newsletter ).

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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 another incident in 2018, HIDDEN COBRA actors enabled cash to be simultaneously withdrawn from ATMs in 23 different countries.” ” states the report.

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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. The post Researcher leaked a dataset of over 7,000,000 transactions scraped from the Venmo public API appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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 post Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 9, 2018

Dave DeWalt, former CEO of McAfee and FireEye, identifies the next generation of cybersecurity threats in the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured: an analysis of the recent news of the Meltdown and Spectre microprocessor flaws and the POS malware attack on retailer Forever 21.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Imagine you are working your s**t retail job when this comes out of your register. In 2018, TheHackerGiraffe used the Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET) to hijack +50k vulnerable printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel. ” reported METRO. R/antiwork pic.twitter.com/N6SAJ9ogq5 — M?GEbit ARE YOU BEING UNDERPAID?

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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. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

May 2018 – Ticketfly , the indie-focused ticketing service that was purchased by Eventbrite, had also suffered a cyber attack. The post TicketClub Italy Database Offered in Dark Web appeared first on Security Affairs. Ticketfly was defaced by an attacker and was subsequently taken offline. Same year – Ticketmaster ’s U.K.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Akamai report titled “[state of the internet] / security CREDENTIAL STUFFING ATTACKS “ the credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat and often underestimated. Security Affairs – credential stuffing, hacking ). The experts detected 8.3 billion per month. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

According to records maintained by Farsight Security , that address is home to a number of other likely phishing domains: securemail.pcm.com.internal-message[.]app. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com. microsoftonline-secure-login[.]com.

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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. Later versions did not include the above info, instead, the variant appeared in the threat landscape since July 2018 only included two emails to negotiate the ransom and to contact to receive the instructions for the payment.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

UK retailer Matalan, US publisher Pantheon Books, and official government Twitter accounts such as the Ministry of Transportation of Colombia and the National Disaster Management Authority of India.) iht Coign BSc (Hons) (@abztrdr) November 5, 2018. Security Affairs – Elon Musk scam, Bitcoin). tweet: [link].

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