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Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2019
More than 460,000 payment card details offered for sale on a black market

More than 455,000 Turkish payment card details are available for sale on a popular forum Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has detected a massive upload of debit and credit card records mostly related to the largest Turkish banks on one of the most popular underground cardshops. More than 460,000 records […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Rail Europe North America hit by payment card data breach

Rail Europe North America (RENA) notifies customers of a security breach, crooks compromised its website with a malware used to siphon payment card data. The website allows users to buy European train tickets, according to the company the data breach lasted at least three months (between November 29, 2017 and February 16, 2018), the incident exposed also customers’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2018
Expedia-owned travel website Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in data breach

Orbitz, the travel website owned by Expedia announced on Tuesday that it has suffered a security breach that affected hundreds of thousands of users. Orbitz.com has millions of users, it was acquired by Expedia in 2015 for $1.6 billion. Orbitz confirmed that attackers gained access to a legacy platform between October 1 and December 22, 2017, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2016
Credit cards stolen from Madison Square Garden venues in the last year

Madison Square Garden Company informed users that their payment card data may have been stolen by cybercriminals Yesterday, the Madison Square Garden Company notified users that their payment card data may have been stolen by cybercriminals. According to the company, crooks have used a PoS malware on its payment processing system and have stolen payment […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2016
New FastPoS PoS malware implements a ‘quickly and dirty’ approach to steal card data

The author of the FastPoS PoS malware issued an update that profoundly changes its behavior, preferring a quick exfiltration activity even if is noisier. Christmas is approaching, and the experts are already at work, including the authors of PoS malware that at that time maximize their profits. The criminal group behind the FastPoS PoS malware have updated […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2016
FastPOS PoS malware implements a quick exfiltration method

Trend Micro experts discovered a new strain of Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware dubbed FastPOS that implements a quick and efficient exfiltration technique. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of PoS malware dubbed FastPOS that is able to quickly exfiltrate harvested data. The malware was used by threat actors to target both enterprises and SMBs […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2015
TrendMicro spotted a 64-Bit variant of NewPosThings PoS malware

Researchers at Trend Micro spotted a 64-bit variant of NewPosThings PoS malware designed to steal payment card and other sensitive data. Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new strain of the NewPosThings point-of-sale (PoS) malware. The new variant of NewPosThings malware is a 64-bit version of NewPosThings, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware discovered by experts at Arbor Networks in […]