Security News

Ransomware gang says they stole 2 million credit cards from E-Land
2020-12-03 02:02

Clop ransomware is claiming to have stolen 2 million credit cards from E-Land Retail over a one-year period ending with last months ransomware attack. In an interview with BleepingComputer, the CLOP ransomware operators claimed to have breached E-Land over a year ago and have been quietly stealing credit cards using POS malware installed on the network.

Credit card skimmer fills fake PayPal forms with stolen order info
2020-11-30 10:37

A newly discovered credit card skimmer uses an innovative technique to inject highly convincing PayPal iframes and hijack the checkout process on compromised online stores. The skimmer will capture all order form data entered by the victims and will exfiltrate it to the attackers' servers.

Ticketmaster: We're not liable for credit card badness because the hack straddled GDPR day
2020-11-25 11:59

Ticketmaster is claiming that the ICO's £1.25m data breach fine clears it of any responsibility for its network being infected by card-skimming malware, according to correspondence seen by The Register. Ticketmaster is insisting that it is not liable to a customer for the compromise of its network, attempting to exploit an apparent legal loophole to squeeze out of Reg reader Richard's fight for compensation.

New Grelos Skimmer Variants Siphon Credit Card Data
2020-11-20 17:23

Just as seasonal online shopping kicks into high gear, new variants of the point-of-sale Grelos skimmer malware have been identified. Over time new actors began to co-opt the Grelos skimmer and reuse some of the original domains used to host the malware.

Over 2800 e-Shops Running Outdated Magento Software Hit by Credit Card Hackers
2020-11-11 02:50

A wave of cyberattacks against retailers running the Magento 1.x e-commerce platform earlier this September has been attributed to one single group, according to the latest research. Collectively called Cardbleed, the attacks targeted at least 2,806 online storefronts running Magento 1.x, which reached end-of-life as of June 30, 2020.

Gold seller JM Bullion hacked to steal customers' credit cards
2020-11-01 12:53

Precious metal online retailer JM Bullion has disclosed a data breach after their site was hacked to include malicious scripts that stole customers' credit card information. JM Bullion is an online retailer of gold, silver, copper, platinum, and palladium products, including coins and bullion.

British Airways fined £20m for Magecart hack that exposed 400k folks' credit card details to crooks
2020-10-16 12:15

British Airways is to pay a £20m data protection fine after its 2018 Magecart hack - even though the Information Commissioner's Office discovered the airline had been saving credit card details in plain text since 2015. It also condemned BA's claims during fine negotiations that credit card data breaches are "An entirely commonplace phenomenon" and "An unavoidable fact of life".

My stolen credit card details were used 4,500 miles away. I tried to find out how it happened
2020-09-16 15:56

Just in case I chose to phone the bank instead. They confirmed that yes, someone had attempted to use my card details over 4,500 miles away from London - but the attempted payment was blocked as suspicious so no money was stolen. "It's entirely possible that you've used your card at an ATM and there's been a skimmer that's read your card and someone has figured out how to clone your card and sold it online. That's entirely feasible - your card might not have been involved in a breach at all, but a skim," says Leigh-Anne Galloway, head of commercial security research at Cyber R&D Lab.

How did my credit card details get stolen and used half the world away?
2020-09-16 15:55

Cybersecurity reporter Danny Palmer tells Karen Roby what he discovered when he tried to find out how someone in South America attempted to use his bank details.

Russian hacker selling how-to vid on exploiting unsupported Magento installations to skim credit card details for $5,000
2020-09-15 13:29

Thousands of e-commerce stores built using Magento 1 have been poisoned with malicious code that steals customers' bank card information as they enter their details to order stuff online. Sansec, a software company focused on these so-called "Digital skimming" attacks, discovered that 1,904 cyber-shops had been altered by miscreants over the weekend to include malicious JavaScript that siphoned off folks' card info.