SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2025

retailers—Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods—earlier this year. Retail disruption costing hundreds of millions The arrests follow months of investigation into a coordinated campaign of cyber intrusions that began in April. retail sector in recent memory. Still, the wave of attacks sent shockwaves through the U.K.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2025

In a matter of days, three major cybersecurity incidents have hit the retail and financial services sectors, drawing renewed attention to supply chain vulnerabilities, credential-based attacks, and the increasing value of non-financial customer data. The retail sector can find themselves caught in tradeoffs," said BeyondTrust's Maude.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2025

“On November 20, 2024, we were notified by a vendor of point-of-sale processing services for some of our retail locations that accounts with their organization had been compromised by an organized cybercrime group.” After discovering the security breach, the company investigated the incident and notified law enforcement.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When we think about cybercrime and retail it is natural to focus on websites being targeted with attacks. Indeed, there has been a shocking rise in the number of cyberattacks perpetrated against online retailers in the past year.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The post Holiday Cybercrime: Retail Risks and Dark Web Kicks first appeared on Digital Shadows. The holidays are right around the corner, and you know what that means – more calories and significant price drops.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2025

But experts say these groups are now directly targeting customers of international financial institutions, while dramatically expanding their cybercrime infrastructure and support staff. Until recently, the so-called “ Smishing Triad ” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. Image: Prodaft.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

However, industries reliant on shared devices—such as healthcare, retail, and manufacturing—face unique challenges. Similarly, in retail and manufacturing, delays caused by authentication procedures reduce overall efficiency. These fast-paced environments need a more flexible approach to balance security, speed, and user privacy.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 10, 2025

UNFI supplies a vast ecosystem of retailers, including Whole Foods Market, which relies heavily on its distribution network. This breach not only raises concerns about UNFI's internal resilience but also underscores broader risks to food supply chains and retail operations. UNFI also provided a systems update regarding the issue.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Retailers and hospitality companies expect to battle credential harvesting, phishing, bots, and various malware variants.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Or maybe it isn’t entirely clear who should get the report when remote access to an organization’s internal network is being sold in the cybercrime underground. Perhaps this particular retailer also did so at one point, however my message was returned with a note saying the email had been blocked.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2025

M&S is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in London. .” The company immediately reported the incident to the relevant data protection supervisory authorities and the National Cyber Security Centre. The company did not share technical details about the attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2025

The FBI reports that the cybercrime group Scattered Spider is now targeting the airline sector. In May, Google warned that the cybercrime group Scattered Spider behind UK retailer attacks is now targeting U.S. The FBI warns that Scattered Spider is now targeting the airline sector.

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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. Intel 471 says Selivanon also was charged along with Stroganov in this past week’s law enforcement action.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

A threat actor claimed the hack of the Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger and leaked 2.8 A threat actor, who goes online with the moniker ShopifyGUY, claimed responsibility for hacking the Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger and leaked 2.8 New breach: Canadian retailer Giant Tiger had 2.8M million records on a hacker forum.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Bad news for the customers of the MyDeal online marketplace, the Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 million MyDeal customers. million of them. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And more cybercrime. The unfortunate truth is that the holidays have always been big for cybercrime, and this year is most definitely not an exception. In fact, the situation is likely to be worse due to the impact supply chain issues are having on retailers and their customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Microsoft has uncovered Zerologon attacks that were allegedly conducted by the infamous TA505 Russia-linked cybercrime group. Microsoft spotted a series of Zerologon attacks allegedly launched by the Russian cybercrime group tracked as TA505 , CHIMBORAZO and Evil Corp. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zerologon).

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2025

Harrods confirmed a cyberattack, following similar incidents suffered by M&S and Co-op, making it the third major UK retailer targeted in one week. The incident marked the third UK retailer hit in a week after Marks and Spencer ( M&S) and the Co-op. ” reads a statement published by the company.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity decided to test this expanded policy with what would appear to be a no-brainer request: I asked Google to remove search result for BriansClub , one of the largest (if not THE largest) cybercrime stores for selling stolen payment card data. BriansClub has long abused my name and likeness to pimp its wares on the hacking forums.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

NCSC's Active Cyber Defense program discovered a vulnerability in the payment software Magento, which is connected to Adobe Commerce and has clients from industries across the board, including healthcare, wholesale, retail, and software. Potential threats of not securing a retail website.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Cactus ransomware group claims to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden. Coop is one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden, with approximately 800 stores across the country. The stores are co-owned by 3.5 million members in 29 consumer associations.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

Most online retailers years ago stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia. If that were the case, we’d also expect to see dumps prices fall significantly across the cybercrime economy. ” CONSCIENCE VS. COMMERCE.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

A new cybercrime gang, tracked as UNC2529 , has targeted many organizations in the US and other countries using new sophisticated malware. FireEye’s Mandiant unit observed two distinct waves of attacks carried out by the cybercrime group in December 2020. The post UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. Joker’s sold cards stolen in a steady drip of breaches at U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2020

Diebold Nixdorf , a major provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and payment technology to banks and retailers, recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some operations. The 35,000-employee company also produces point-of-sale systems and software used by many retailers. ” NOT SO PRO LOCK.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Retail giant Costco Wholesale Corporation notified its customers of a data breach that might have exposed their payment card information. The retail giant has 737 membership-only retail stores across the U.S., it is the fifth-largest retailer in the world and the 10th-largest corporation in the country by total revenue.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2025

A cybercrime group named Hive0117 is behind a fresh phishing campaign that targeted Russian organizations with a new version of the DarkWatchman malware, according to Russian cybersecurity firm F6. Hive0117 targets Russian firms in multiple sectors with phishing attacks using a modified version of the DarkWatchman malware.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Not only does this ecosystem provide buyers with substandard goods, it also enables crimes like intellectual property (IP) crime, cybercrime, money laundering, and environmental crime. When that’s not an option look for authorized retailers. Intellectual property is what drives innovation.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

The economic laws of supply and demand hold just as true in the business world as they do in the cybercrime space. But fraud experts say recent developments suggest both trends are about to change — and likely for the worse. “Card present data supply hasn’t wavered much during the COVID-19 period,” Alforov said.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It is sadly the case that ecommerce cybercrime is on the rise. As cybercriminals do seem to be taking a keener interest in the industry, it is up to owners of ecommerce businesses to be extra vigilant about cybercrime and put appropriate defenses in place to keep the company secure. Major risks for online retailers.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Retail is known to experience a spike in cybercrime around the holidays. However, this year, it's not only Retail that should be concerned — research by CORO finds that all mid-market businesses are 490% more likely to experience.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Alas, cybercrime bazaars like Joker’s Stash have continued plying their trade, undeterred by a push from the credit card associations to encourage more merchants to install credit card readers that require more secure chip-based payment cards. .”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Retail giant Target is going to open-source an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker , designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Retail giant Target announced the release in open-source of an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker , designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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