payment card data

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
South Korean and US payment card details worth nearly $2M up for sale in the underground

Group-IB experts discovere a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. Singapore, 24/04/2020 – Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has detected a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. The database was comprised almost entirely of the payment records related to banks […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2019
Over 23 million stolen payment card data traded on the Dark Web in H1 2019

According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019.  A report published by cybersecurity firm Sixgill revealed that data for over 23 million payment card were offered for sale in the cybercrime underground. The report, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2018
Thousands of BevMo customers impacted in payment card breach

BevMo, the wine and liquor store, is warning customers of payment card breach and reported the incident to the authorities. The wine and liquor store BevMo suffered a payment card breach, a hacker stole credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who purchased goods on the website. The company has notified […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2018
MagentoCore skimmer already infected 7,339 Magento stores

MagentoCore skimmer already infected 7,339 Magento stores, according to the Willem de Groot who uncovered the campaign, it is the most aggressive to date. The cybersecurity researcher Willem de Groot has uncovered a massive hacking campaign aimed at Magento stores. The hackers have already infected 7,339 Magento stores with a skimmer script, dubbed MagentoCore, that siphons payment card […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2016
A Chinese gang in Pakistan specializes in ATM Skimmer attacks

The Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan is investigating a Chinese organization that is specialized in attacking ATM machines by using skimmer devices. A few days ago I reported the story of the security expert Benjamin Tedesco that has spotted an ATM skimmer during his vacation in Vienna. The ATM skimmer was quite impossible to detect to common people and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2016
Have you ever seen an ATM skimmer at an automated teller machine?

The cyber security expert Benjamin Tedesco during his vacation in Vienna, Austria, has spotted an ATM skimmer quite impossible to detect to common people. Have you ever seen a skimmer while using an ATM? Unfortunately, we have to admit that it isn’t so easy to find it, in the majority of cases, the victims are not […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2016
Sh0ping.su hacked, stolen card data and accounts available for sale

The notorious crime forum Sh0ping[.]su has been hacked by unknowns that leaked online credit card data and stolen accounts. Data breaches are a common problem also for bad actors, in many cases cyber criminals hack websites of competitors to damage their reputation and push out them from the business. Recently we discussed the hacks of […]