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Passport scam foxing Texas populace with data collection

CyberSecurity Insiders

The public are been urged not to respond to such calls on phone and reveal no bank information to the fraudsters in order to avoid trouble in the future. “We The post Passport scam foxing Texas populace with data collection appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Two hacker groups attacked Russian banks posing as the Central Bank of Russia

Security Affairs

Group-IB has detected massive campaigns targeting Russian financial institutions posing as the Central Bank of Russia. The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. SSL certificates were not used for DKIM verification.

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New set of Pakistani banks’ card dumps goes on sale on the dark web

Security Affairs

According to the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing.almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent security breach. Group-IB experts discovered another large set of compromised payment cards details that was put on sale on Joker’s Stash, one of the most popular underground hubs of stolen card data, on Nov.

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Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity

Schneier on Security

Looking forward, integrity controls will fundamentally shape AI development by moving from optional features to core architectural requirements, much as SSL certificates evolved from a banking luxury to a baseline expectation for any Web service. In the future, we will need the same assurances for integrity.

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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

Krebs on Security

Data collected in the course of the investigation also reveals some fascinating details that may help explain why these pump skimmers are so lucrative and ubiquitous. This can result from the skimmers sometimes incorrectly reading card data, daily withdrawal limits, or fraud alerts at the issuing bank.

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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Krebs on Security

Security firms also attributed to Russia’s intelligence services a volley of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Ukrainian banks just prior to the invasion. But the data collected by Quad9 suggest that a great deal of low-level cyberattacks targeting Ukrainians remain ongoing.

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Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2020

Security Affairs

The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2020 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from April to Jun, Q2, of 2020. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.