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Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2022

US man sentenced to 4 years in prison for his role in Infraud scheme

A man from New York was sentenced to four years in prison for trading stolen credit card data and assisting the Infraud Organization. John Telusma (aka ‘Peterelliot’), a New York man from New York (37), was sentenced this week to four years in prison for purchasing stolen or compromised credit cards and assisting the Infraud […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2022

Retail giant Target open sources Merry Maker e-skimmer detection tool

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. Merry Maker is a tool designed by Target security developers Eric Brandel and Caleb Walch (@ebrandel and @cawalch) to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2022

Russian authorities arrested the kingpin of cybercrime Infraud Organization

Russian authorities arrested four alleged members of the international cyber theft ring tracked as ‘Infraud Organization.’ In February 2008, the US authorities dismantled the global cybercrime organization tracked as Infraud Organization, which was involved in stealing and selling credit card and personal identity data. The Justice Department announced indictments for 36 people charged with being […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2021

New Magecart group uses an e-Skimmer that avoids VMs and sandboxes

A new Magecart group leverages a browser script to evade virtualized environments and sandboxes used by researchers. Malwarebytes researchers have spotted a new Magecart group that uses a browser script to evade detection and the execution in virtualized environments used by security researchers for threat analysis. Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella continue to target e-stores to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2021

Boffins show PIN bypass attack Mastercard and Maestro contactless payments

Boffins from the Swiss ETH Zurich university demonstrated PIN bypass attack on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. A group of researchers from the Swiss ETH Zurich university has discovered a vulnerability that allowed them to bypass PIN codes on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. Technically the researchers performed a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack between […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2021

Magecart hackers hide captured credit card data in JPG file

Crooks devised a new method to hide credit card data siphoned from compromised e-stores, experts observed hackers hiding data in JPG files. Cybercriminals have devised a new method to hide credit card data siphoned from compromised online stores, experts from Sucuri observed Magecart hackers hiding data in JPG files to avoid detection and storing them […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2021

Joker’s Stash, the largest carding site, is shutting down

Joker’s Stash to shut down on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online announced that it was shutting down its operations on February 15, 2021. Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, announced that its operations will shut down on February 15, 2021. The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2020

Multi-platform card skimmer targets Shopify, BigCommerce, Zencart, and Woocommerce stores

Experts warn of a multi-platform credit card skimmer that can target online stores running on Shopify, BigCommerce, Zencart, and Woocommerce. Security experts have discovered a multi-platform credit card skimmer that can allow threat actors to harvest payment info on compromised stores powered by Shopify, BigCommerce, Zencart, and Woocommerce. Researchers from security firm Sansec discovered that the new […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2020

Crooks use software skimmer that pretends to be a security firm

Security experts from Sucuri analyzing a software skimmer that is abusing its brand name in order to evade detection. Researchers at Sucuri analyzed a software skimmer that is using their brand name in order to evade detection. The e-skimmer is a base64-encoded JavaScript blob that attackers inject into target webpages. During a routine investigation, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2020

Russian cybercriminal Aleksandr Brovko sentenced to 8 years in jail

Russian cybercriminal Aleksandr Brovko has been sentenced to eight years in jail for his role in a botnet scheme that caused at least $100 million in financial damage. The Russian cybercriminal Aleksandr Brovko (36) has been sentenced to eight years in jail for his role in a sophisticated botnet scheme that caused at least $100 […]

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US man sentenced to 4 years in prison for his role in Infraud scheme

Retail giant Target open sources Merry Maker e-skimmer detection tool

Russian authorities arrested the kingpin of cybercrime Infraud Organization

New Magecart group uses an e-Skimmer that avoids VMs and sandboxes

Boffins show PIN bypass attack Mastercard and Maestro contactless payments

Magecart hackers hide captured credit card data in JPG file

Joker’s Stash, the largest carding site, is shutting down

Multi-platform card skimmer targets Shopify, BigCommerce, Zencart, and Woocommerce stores

Crooks use software skimmer that pretends to be a security firm

Russian cybercriminal Aleksandr Brovko sentenced to 8 years in jail

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