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A concerned mother contacted the police after receiving a suspicious email claiming to be from Apple. After handing over her bank statements, she realized it was Apple who was asking for various personal documents. In what can only be described as an overly-protective initiative on behalf of Apple, the company repor... |
13 May 2013
07:48 GMT |
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Mapco Express, the US-based convenience store chain, is notifying customers about a security breach. The company says hackers have managed to gain access to customer credit/debit card information by planting malware on payment processing systems.
The precise number of affected customers hasn’t been revea... |
7 May 2013
07:24 GMT |
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Evidence obtained by security expert and journalist Brian Krebs suggests that Teavana, the tea products retailer, might have suffered a data breach as a result of which customer payment cards have been compromised. Starbucks, which has owned Teavana since December 2012, has declined to comment, but sources from a US... |
23 April 2013
07:42 GMT |
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In a phishing scheme that has been doing the rounds since last month, cybercriminals have spoofed the security guidance page of a poplar credit card services company in an attempt to trick users into handing over their personal and financial information.
Symantec reports that users are led to believe that their deta... |
17 April 2013
17:01 GMT |
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St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets has revealed that the details of customer debit and credit cards have been compromised as a result of a cyberattack.
According to a statement issued by the company, the cybercriminals stole the information associated with around 2.4 million debit and credit cards between December 2012... |
16 April 2013
05:10 GMT |
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Last week, web hosting and cloud computing provider Linode published a blog post admitting that some of its systems had been hacked. At the time, they claimed that only one of their customers had been impacted, but as a precaution, they had reset all user passwords.
However, on Monday, a hacker using the online moni... |
16 April 2013
04:25 GMT |
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Researchers from Russian security firm Group-IB have identified a piece of malware that’s designed to steal payment card information from the ATMs and the point-of-sale (POS) systems it infects.
Dubbed “Dump Memory Grabber,” the malicious element has already swiped the details of cards issued by ma... |
27 March 2013
07:59 GMT |
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A lot of advisories have been published over the past period about how to secure online account passwords. However, as experts from security firm Avast highlight, the four-digit personal identification numbers (PINs) that protect our credit cards must also be carefully guarded.
Experts advise users not to choose PIN... |
25 March 2013
17:01 GMT |
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A total of four individuals, two from Los Angeles and two from Las Vegas, were arrested a couple of days ago by the New York Police Department for illegally withdrawing large amounts of money from the bank accounts of hundreds of individuals.
According to the NY Post, the first suspect was apprehended after Chase ha... |
25 March 2013
14:31 GMT |
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Researchers from security solutions provider McAfee have come across a Trojan that’s advertised as being capable of stealing payment information from the Windows machines to which credit card readers are attached.
Dubbed vSkimmer, the malware appears to be similar to Dexter, another malicious element that&rsqu... |
22 March 2013
19:41 GMT |
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Today, March 20, has been appointed by the UK Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as the Courier Fraud Awareness Day. Activities are being carried out to raise awareness regarding these scams which, in two years’ time, have made over 2,200 victims, most of which elderly citizens.
Since January 2011, authorities have a... |
20 March 2013
11:24 GMT |
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Law enforcement authorities from Finland, in collaboration with the Europol’s new European Cybercrime Center (EC3), have cracked down on the operations of an Asian criminal network that’s believed to have stolen over 70,000 EUR ($91,000) in Europe alone.
According to the Europol, two individuals suspecte... |
11 March 2013
07:58 GMT |
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Making purchases from untrusted online stores is risky business these days. This is the lesson learned by 1,341 Natural Selection 2 players who had their keys deactivated on Steam after the game’s developer noticed they had been purchased with stolen credit cards.
The developer of Natural Selection 2, Unknown ... |
8 March 2013
07:53 GMT |
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Eleven Sri Lankans, one Indian, four Malaysians, and nine Canadians have been arrested by Malaysian police. Authorities believe the individuals are involved in an international credit card fraud scheme. The arrests are part of a joint effort between Canadian police, the Interpol and Malaysian authorities, Bernama re... |
26 February 2013
04:25 GMT |
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Malware families designed to steal data from Point of Sale (POS) systems have become highly problematic, and experts warn that cybercriminals are continually working on improving their creations. Sophos experts have taken another look at Troj/Trackr-Gen, a Trojan that has mainly been spotted on the computers of hosp... |
16 February 2013
03:51 GMT |
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Sameera Reddy, the famous Indian actress, was called up by a hacker from the US who stole the details of her credit card and used them to make several purchases.
According to NDTV, the hacker made purchases of around Rs 5 lakhs, the equivalent of around $9,300 (7,000 EUR).
The individual who called her introduced ... |
8 February 2013
10:58 GMT |
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Bashas' – the Arizona-based grocery chain – is informing customers that it has fallen victim to a highly sophisticated cyberattack that targeted the payment information stored on its systems.
The company’s representatives say they’re compliant with all PCI security requirements, but the malware the... |
7 February 2013
04:51 GMT |
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The FBI has arrested 13 people and charged 18 for their role in a credit card fraud scheme which caused damages of at least $200 million (150 million EUR).
According to authorities, the suspects – aged between 31 and 74 – made up 7,000 fake identities which they used to obtain tens of thousands of credit... |
6 February 2013
05:55 GMT |
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David Benjamin Schrooten, the Dutch national accused of being involved in a major hacking scheme, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Schrooten, aged 22, was arrested in Romania back in March 2012 and extradited shortly after to the United States. In November, he pleaded guilty to access device fraud, conspira... |
4 February 2013
02:42 GMT |
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Security firm F-Secure has launched a video series to answer some important questions about online banking security. In the ten short videos, F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hyppönen and Sean Sullivan, Security Advisor at F-Secure Labs detail topics such as remembering strong passwords, ATM securi... |
18 January 2013
16:01 GMT |
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Zaxby's Franchising, Inc., the Georgia-based restaurant chain which operates over 500 restaurants in 13 US states, has issued a warning to customers after identifying pieces of malware on the computers from around 100 of its establishments.
The suspicious files were discovered after credit card processing compa... |
16 January 2013
04:49 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the image of the US Health Department has often been stained because of fraud-related crimes committed by the organization’s employees. Now, law enforcement authorities have identified another fraud case.
38-year-old Selena Patino, a former employee of the Texas Department of Health an... |
15 January 2013
10:29 GMT |
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Apple will one day put an NFC chip inside the iPhone. That’s pretty much a given. But will the fruity company at 1 Infinite Loop also create its own payment system? An iCard, if you will?
The Aussies at Credit Card Compare are trying to answer this question via an infographic that makes the iCard seem as a rea... |
20 December 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Experts highlight the fact that many organizations wrongly assume that if they only transmit payment card data, or if they process a small amount of payment card data, they don’t have to be PCI compliant.
In reality, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) clearly states that all merchants, regardless whether they&rsq... |
19 December 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Fraudsters often harvest credit card details by tampering Point of Sale (POS) devices from various merchants. While in some cases they alter the existing devices, they can also simply replace them with cleverly-designed "fakes."
Brian Krebs has identified one cybercriminal that sells two types of pre-hacked Verifone... |
18 December 2012
05:25 GMT |
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A number of 56 individuals suspected of being part of a major credit card fraud ring have been arrested as part of a raid coordinated by Europol. This latest phase of Operation Cloning Connection brings the total number of arrests to 105. Of the 56 suspects, one has been arrested in the Netherlands, 17 in Italy and ... |
17 December 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Queensland Police representatives warn people from the Brisbane central business district about a new ATM skimming operation initiated by a group of fraudsters whose main purpose is to steal valuable credit card information which they can use to clone cards.
The skimming devices almost perfectly replicate the part o... |
22 November 2012
07:08 GMT |
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The “Sberbank Visa Infinite” credit card, apparently a real bank product you can get in Russia, costs $100,000 (€79,000), none of which is deposited in your account. Geekologie describes the card as made of pure gold, and completely useless. This gizmo works just like a credit card, except for the f... |
9 November 2012
14:01 GMT |
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GameFly announces that it is giving away the first-person shooter BioShock for free to all those who are willing to sign up for the video game service.
It seems that even though we are talking about a digital product, a limited quantity of free downloads is available, although GameFly representatives were not willin... |
8 November 2012
15:55 GMT |
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Most of the emails sent out by cybercriminals are designed to trick recipients into downloading malware or visiting websites that are cleverly set up to steal their personal information. However, the crooks sometimes send out emails in an effort to advertise the information stolen from others.
According to Sophos ex... |
5 November 2012
07:12 GMT |
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Google Wallet hasn't been a huge success. Neither have any of Google's past moves into the payments business, like Google Checkout which was merged into Wallet.
But the promise is too great for Google to give up, so it's adding more and more features and capabilities to its mobile payments service.
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2 November 2012
08:44 GMT |
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The video game publishing division of Microsoft and the credit card giant American Express say that they are ready to offer actual real-world money to all those who are willing to play Halo 4, the upcoming shooter created by 343 Industries, while also synchronizing their online identities. The two companies are enco... |
2 November 2012
06:19 GMT |
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Financial institutions from all over the world are struggling to put an end to credit card fraud, but the task has proven more difficult than anyone would have imagined. There are certain situations in which the credit card holder can’t really do anything to safeguard his/her credit card information. For in... |
30 October 2012
18:51 GMT |
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All individuals who purchased items with their credit cards from Aultman Hospital’s gift shop between February and September 2012 are at risk because hackers managed to penetrate the shop’s systems.
The Press-News informs that no health information was affected, but the Ohio medical institution is still... |
26 October 2012
10:22 GMT |
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On September 14, Barnes & Noble representatives discovered that the keypads from 63 stores had been tampered by hackers. The cybercriminals stole the payment card details of the customers who utilized the devices.
The representatives of the bookstore immediately alerted the US attorney’s office and the FBI. Th... |
24 October 2012
03:24 GMT |
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A 43-year-old woman has been sentenced to four years in prison and five years of supervised release after being found guilty of skimming the bank accounts of 237 unsuspecting individuals. She will also have to pay $125,241 (97,000 EUR) in restitution.
According to the Eastern District of Washington Attorney’s ... |
22 October 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Google is getting ready to issue AdWords-branded credit cards, in the UK first but later expanding to the US. The cards are designed to make it easier for small businesses to spend on advertising, before having the funds to do so. The program is run through Barclaycard in the UK and Comenity Capital Bank.
The progra... |
8 October 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) continues to dismantle one of the most successful identity crime syndicates the country has ever seen. Authorities arrested two additional suspects – husband and wife – at their home in Ryde. It’s believed that this residence was the place where the fraudulen... |
27 September 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Second Life customers are advised to be on the lookout for a shady website that promises 2,500L$ (Linden Dollars) in return for their credit card details.
Second Life is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab, where each user interacts with others via avatars. “Residents” can trade virtual property and... |
25 September 2012
08:30 GMT |
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23-year-old Asiel Rodriquez and 19-year-old Viviana Gonzalez were arrested on suspicion of using counterfeit credit cards to purchase various items from a number of 15 Publix supermarkets from Lee and Collier counties.
Here, we have another incident that shows how easy it is to abuse payment systems.
The suspects... |
18 September 2012
06:33 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of Cambridge have identified a flaw that could allow fraudsters to clone EMV chip-and-PIN payment cards. Mike Bond, Omar Choudary, Steven Murdoch, Sergei Skorobogatov and Ross Anderson have written a paper on the topic, which they’ll present in detail at an upcoming conference in... |
12 September 2012
07:23 GMT |
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A leak of all the credit card personal identification numbers (PINs) in the world sounds like it could be the hack of the year. However, if you stop and think about it, it’s actually not a big deal at all.
A Pastebin paste entitled “All credit card PIN codes in the world leaked” caught our attentio... |
10 September 2012
07:07 GMT |
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A number of 10 individuals have been sentenced to a total of 40 years by a judge at the Guildford Crown Court after they had convinced several elderly citizens to hand over more than £120,000 ($191,916 or 150,122 EUR). “The sentences that have been handed to these callous individuals have ensured that th... |
10 September 2012
04:39 GMT |
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The folks from Scambook have made an interesting video which teaches users how to get their money back in case their credit cards have been charged without them authorizing it.
According to the experts, there are various reasons for a dispute, but the most common are the situations in which users don’t actually rec... |
28 August 2012
08:20 GMT |
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Credit card records, Facebook passwords, images of bank checks and email addresses belonging to Israelis have been published online by an Arab hacker group called Remember Emad. The information has been allegedly stolen from WebGate, an Israeli hosting company. The hackers, who apparently want to bring an homage to ... |
9 August 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Most Australians from the state of Victoria who use public transportation acquire their tickets via the contactless smartcard ticketing system known as Myki. The problem is that an error present in the vending machines could expose the credit card details of customers.
According to The Age, when travelers pay for th... |
8 August 2012
06:55 GMT |
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VeriFone’s Artema Hybrid point of sale (POS) devices – which are highly popular in Germany – have been found to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute malicious code and steal payment card details, including their PINs. Experts from Security Research Labs (SRLab... |
17 July 2012
07:06 GMT |
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33-year-old Charles Tony Williamson, better known as the famous rap artist Guerilla Black, has been detained at his home in Los Angeles on suspicion of purchasing and using payment card details obtained by hackers from two restaurants from the Seattle area.
The hackers – David Benjamin Schrooten, aged 22, and Christ... |
13 July 2012
10:18 GMT |
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Last month, UK authorities apprehended a number of 24 individuals suspected of being involved in payment card information trafficking. As a continuation of the operation, the FBI announced the arrests of three more suspects, bringing the number of defendants to 27.
Nikhil Kolbekar, aka HellsAngel, was arrested on Ju... |
13 July 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Security experts from Threat Metrix and the United Kingdom’s Action Fraud are warning Internet users to be on the lookout for a new variant of the infamous ZeuS malware that attempts to steal sensitive information by posing as genuine login pages.
It all starts with a normal login page, but once unsuspecting i... |
5 July 2012
05:32 GMT |
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