Target hackers have more data than they can sell
What's the downside to successfully stealing 40 million credit card numbers from Target? Trying to sell the data.
Jeremy Kirk | 14 Jan | Read more
What's the downside to successfully stealing 40 million credit card numbers from Target? Trying to sell the data.
Jeremy Kirk | 14 Jan | Read more
The CEO of retailer Target revealed Saturday in an interview that the company's point-of-sale (PoS) systems were infected with malware, confirming what security experts suspected since the massive data breach was announced in mid-December.
Lucian Constantin | 13 Jan | Read more
The UK public sector is poorly equipped to combat fraud, with civil servants not being given the necessary training to help detect the estimated £20.6 billion lost every to fraud, says big data analytics firm SAS.
Antony Savvas | 07 Dec | Read more
New attack campaigns have infected point-of-sale (PoS) systems around the world with sophisticated malware designed to steal payment card and transaction data.
Lucian Constantin | 05 Dec | Read more
A new Trojan program that targets users of online financial services has the potential to spread very quickly over the next few months, security researchers warn.
Lucian Constantin | 26 Nov | Read more
A new variant of a Trojan program that targets online banking accounts also contains code to search if infected computers have SAP client applications installed, suggesting that attackers might target SAP systems in the future.
Lucian Constantin | 01 Nov | Read more
The co-founder of Liberty Reserve, a now defunct virtual currency that was widely favored by the criminal underground, pleaded guilty on Thursday to money laundering and other charges.
Jeremy Kirk | 01 Nov | Read more
Six Eastern European men are being sought by U.S. prosecutors for allegedly netting up to US$3 million by placing fraudulent advertisements for vehicles, motorcycles and boats on major online marketplaces, including eBay.
Jeremy Kirk | 25 Oct | Read more
Insiders are still the main threat to an organisation’s information, but outside hackers have caught up and are leaning on vendors and suppliers to gain a foothold in their targets.
The one constant about user awareness training is that the awareness part is supposed to stick with you. Learning how to spot one type of phishing email is only good for that particular email, thus the concept of awareness is learning to trust your gut when something looks suspicious.
Steve Ragan | 09 Oct | Read more
FICO has alerted chiefs of leading Asian banks to the growing threat of enterprise fraud at its annual Fraud Forum in Manila this month.
Zafar Anjum | 30 Sep | Read more
The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by security researchers from Symantec.
Lucian Constantin | 30 Sep | Read more
A criminal gang attempted to plant a rogue hardware device on the network of a Santander bank branch in London to remotely control a computer and steal money.
Lucian Constantin | 13 Sep | Read more
A new Web-based service for cybercriminals automates the creation of fake scanned documents that can help fraudsters bypass the identity verification processes used by some banks, e-commerce businesses and other online services providers, according to researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB.
Lucian Constantin | 27 Aug | Read more
A new variant of the Ramnit financial malware is using local Web browser injections in order to steal log-in credentials for Steam accounts, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer.
Lucian Constantin | 19 Aug | Read more