Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Following his release from jail, Vrublevsky began working on a new digital payments platform based in Hong Kong called HPay Ltd (a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2024

Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532 The investigation was conducted with the help of third-party security experts and the city also notified federal and local law enforcement authorities. “We reads the initial security breach notification.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2023

Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with “dozens” of arrests in the United States and abroad targeting those who allegedly operated the service, as well as suppliers who continuously fed Genesis Market with freshly-stolen data. ” a cybercrime forum ad for Genesis enthused.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S. The security breach took place on May 5th, 2024, and the City immediately started its incident response procedure to prevent the threat from spreading. reads the security breach notification. reads the security breach notification. the city noted. states the report.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

Unlike many younger users online, they may have accumulated savings over their lives — and those nest eggs are a major target for hackers. Perhaps elderly folks who haven’t spent a lot of time online are easier to deceive. They can either use the data to charge the services or steal the cash. Ever present threats.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2024

The information involved does not include financial or payment information, email address, telephone number or any highly sensitive customer information.” Phishing attacks often impersonate people or brands you know, and use themes that require urgent attention, such as missed deliveries, account suspensions, and security alerts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Toyota Financial Services discloses unauthorized activity on systems after the Medusa ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company. Toyota Financial Services confirmed the discovery of unauthorized activity on systems in a limited number of its locations. “In most countries, we have started bringing our systems back online.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission , T-Mobile said a “bad actor” abused an application programming interface (API) to hoover up data on roughly 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts. “If you opt for a cash payment you will receive an estimated $25.00,” the site explains. 25, 2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

There are two types of payments: online and offline. You can decide which options work best for you, your convenience, and your payment experience. Every time you make a payment, whether on or offline, there is a risk that thieves or hackers might steal your payment information. Security triggers.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Holiday Online Shopping Safety Tips IdentityIQ The holiday shopping season is quickly approaching and will be gone before you know it. Here are five crucial holiday online shopping safety tips and answers to common questions that will get you ready for a safe shopping season. 5 Holiday Online Shopping Safety Tips 1.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. who in April 2022 opened an investigation into fraud tied to Zelle , the “peer-to-peer” digital payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family. ” Sen.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. Indianapolis-based GovPayNet , doing business online as GovPayNow.com , serves approximately 2,300 government agencies in 35 states. Additionally, most information in the receipts is a matter of public record that may be accessed through other means.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As the annual Black Friday approaches, the digital landscape experiences an unprecedented surge in e-commerce and online shopping activity. The annual Black Friday rise in online transactions sets the stage for a cyber-battleground, where malicious actors exploit users’ interest in online shopping.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The 911 service as it exists today. For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

As more of our personal data is collected online, privacy concerns have increased. However, most people are unaware of how widely their data spreads. Data Usage Some main ways customer data is used include targeting online ads based on purchase history to make ads more relevant.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

Comprehensive cybersecurity legislation is imperative to build and maintain confidence in the future and ensure a secure digital landscape. This blog will briefly overview the most essential developments shaping the legislative and compliance environment. NIS2 covers a broader range of critical societal and economic sectors.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It turns out that free apps share the most user information, a staggering 7 times more data points than paid apps. It makes sense that free apps share the most data: users effectively pay with their personal information. Among the app categories, shopping, business, and food & drink were found to be sharing the most user data.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

In late 2019, BriansClub changed its homepage to include doctored images of my Social Security and passport cards, credit report and mobile phone bill information. The real BriansClub uses a dodgy virtual currency exchange service based in St. The payment message displayed by the carding site phishing domain BriansClub[.]com.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2024

An international law enforcement operation led to the disruption of the prominent phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost. An international law enforcement operation, codenamed Nebulae and coordinated by Europol, led to the disruption of LabHost, which is one of the world’s largest phishing-as-a-service platforms.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

COVID-19 has accelerated a consumer shift online, urging people to rethink the way they purchase goods and services. Lockdowns and heightened concerns around health and safety have resulted in soaring numbers of consumers (62%) opting to shop online in the past 18 months (see figure below). Increased security.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 5, 2023

Thales payShield receives the French Cartes Bancaires HSM certification madhav Thu, 07/06/2023 - 04:35 Securing online payments is more important than ever. methodology, for our current payment HSM, payShield 10K. About payShield 10K payShield 10K is the fifth generation of payment HSMs from Thales.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Louis Morton , a security professional based in Fort Worth, Texas, forwarded an SMS phishing or “smishing” message sent to his wife’s mobile device that indicated a package couldn’t be delivered. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of negative consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. The Microleaves proxy service, which is in the process of being rebranded to Shifter[.[io.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2024

The attack on Change Healthcare, which processes about 50% of US medical claims, was one of the worst ransomware attacks against American healthcare and caused widespread disruption in payments to doctors and health facilities. The chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, Andrew Witty, is expected to testify in Congress in May about the matter.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Before you give to a charity that is soliciting donations but about which which you know very little, confirm the entity’s worthiness with the Better Business Bureau, Charity Navigator, or another legitimate charity information service. Also, note that most non-university charities use.org addresses, not.com or.edu.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year for scammers. According to Adobe Analytics’ recent holiday forecast , online sales are projected to surge 33% year over year to a record $189 billion as “Cyber-week turns to Cyber-months” amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Consider alternate payment methods.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 22, 2019

14 it was investigating a data breach involving payment processing systems that handle transactions at some Hy-Vee fuel pumps, drive-thru coffee shops and restaurants. Hy-Vee said it was too early to tell when the breach initially began or for how long intruders were inside their payment systems.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The six-month operation (July-December 2023) targeted organizations involved in seven types of online scams: business email compromise (BEC), ecommerce fraud, investment fraud, voice phishing , money laundering associated with illegal online gambling, romance scams , and online sextortion schemes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API. Unfortunately, API attacks are increasing as vectors for security incidents. Most API attacks are the result of credential theft. Why have APIs become ripe attack vectors?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 29, 2024

Comprehensive cybersecurity legislation is imperative to build and maintain confidence in the future and ensure a secure digital landscape. This blog will briefly overview the most essential developments shaping the legislative and compliance environment. NIS2 covers a broader range of critical societal and economic sectors.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Besides, 94% of shoppers now do at least some of their shopping online. While on ordinary days, the customer can easily see that if the product is too cheap, it is most likely a scam, during the Black Friday sales, it gets harder to tell. The risk of being scammed runs even higher. Key findings.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. and $100 for USPS job coaching services, and receive little if anything in return.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2023

million of the revenue that the same group of IT workers collected from unwitting victims as a result of their scheme, as well as the development of public-private information-sharing partnerships that denied the IT workers access to their preferred online freelance work and payment service providers.”

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In fact, according to the AARP, most consumers ages 18 and older are wrong or unsure about certain safe shopping practices. For online purchases, rely on legitimate payment methods like credit cards. You should also be wary of scammers attempting to emulate popular payment app services such as Zelle and PayPal.

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