A 27-year-old Russian programmer named Eugene Anikin received a five-year suspended prison sentence today for his role in a major fraud operation that resulted in the theft of almost $10 million from US-based RBS WorldPay.The RBS WorldPay cyberheist is considered one of the most sophisticated and well organized cyber... |
8 February 2011
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Another hacker will be tried in Russia for his alleged role in the $9-million RBS WorldPay cyber heist, leaving open the possibility that he is the defendant referred to as 'Hacker 3' in an indictment filed in US.Citing local media, Threat Post reports that a criminal case will be heard against one Eugene... |
15 September 2010
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Viktor Pleshchuk, one of the masterminds behind the $9 million RBS WorldPay cyberheist, received a six-year suspended prison sentence in Russia after agreeing to help authorities with information.The RBS WorldPay hit is viewed by many as the most sophisticated and well organized cyberfraud operation ever conducted.In... |
9 September 2010
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An Estonian man accused of playing an important role in the RBS WorldPay hit, which resulted in loses of over $9 million, was extradited to stand trial in the Unites States. The alleged fraudster, who was indicted along with other co-conspirators in Atlanta last year, entered a plea of not guilty yesterday.Sergei Tsu... |
7 August 2010
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Viktor Pleshchuk, one of the hackers indicted last year in the RBS WorldPay cyberheist case, was arrested by authorities in Russia. The Financial Times reports that he was apprehended along with several other suspects by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).RBS WorldPay is a large payment proc... |
23 March 2010
11:27 GMT |
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The gang of fraudsters who stole $9 million after hacking into the RBS WorldPay payment processor last year have been indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta, the United States Department of Justice announces. Four hackers and six cashers were charged with various counts of wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated ident... |
11 November 2009
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RBS WorldPay is currently banging heads with a grey hat hacker over the seriousness of SQL injection vulnerabilities that he discovered on its websites. Meanwhile, another web developer exposed a cross-site scripting weakness in a site belonging to the company in order to prove that its efforts to mitigate XSS are no... |
12 September 2009
04:26 GMT |
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A cross-site scripting vulnerability discovered in the website of RBS WorldPay allows attackers to launch efficient phishing attacks against customers. The same flaw can also be exploited to serve malware or prompt rogue alerts. The XSS weakness has been discovered and documented by a Team Elite member, going by the... |
23 May 2009
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Security researchers warn of a new e-mail malware distribution campaign targeting WorldPay customers. The fake messages claim to be the confirmation of a successful Amazon transaction, with the attached invoice being actually a computer Trojan installer."Thank you! Your transaction has been processed by WorldPay, on ... |
9 May 2009
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that three companies have been awarded contracts to process tax-return payments beginning 2010. Amongst them is RBS WorldPay, a payment processor involved in a major security breach last November, which resulted in the company being declared no longer compliant with th... |
27 April 2009
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Following serious security breaches and data theft incidents at Heartland Payment Systems and RBS WorldPay, Vista has removed the two processors from its list (PDF) of providers compliant with the payment industry's security standards, PCI DSS. According to industry experts, this leaves its hundreds of customers... |
16 March 2009
04:41 GMT |
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RBS WorldPay announced in December that a security breach on its network might have compromised the personal information of 1.5 million credit card holders. The company noted at the time that around 100 cards had already been misused by unidentified cyber criminals. However, what it didn't say was that the fraud... |
4 February 2009
09:18 GMT |
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RBS WorldPay, a popular payment processing service, has announced that an unknown and unauthorized party has illegally obtained access to its computer systems. The personal information of 1.5 million customers, as well as the Social Security numbers of 1.1 million, may have been compromised, according to the company.... |
28 December 2008
06:34 GMT |
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