Security News

Russian National Charged in Payment Card Scheme
2019-11-13 16:03

DoJ Says Aleksey Burkov, Who Was Extradited This Week, Ran 'Cardplanet' SiteThe U.S. Justice Department Tuesday unsealed an indictment charging Russian national Aleksey Burkov with running an...

Update: PCI SSC's Enhanced Contactless Payment Standard
2019-11-08 19:48

In December, PCI SSC plans to publish a new standard for solutions that enable "tap and go" transactions on merchant smartphones and other commercial off-the shelf mobile devices. Troy Leach, the...

Joker's Stash Lists 1.3 Million Stolen Indian Payment Cards
2019-10-29 12:18

Notorious Cybercrime Marketplace Unveils Massive Data Trove, Researchers WarnThe notorious Joker's Stash cybercrime marketplace, which specializes in selling stolen payment card data, has a new...

Joker's Stash Lists 1 Million Stolen Indian Payment Cards
2019-10-29 11:48

Notorious Cybercrime Marketplace Unveils Massive Data Trove, Researchers WarnThe notorious Joker's Stash cybercrime marketplace, which specializes in selling stolen payment card data, has a new...

U.S. Fast-Food Chain Krystal Investigating Payment Card Breach
2019-10-29 09:38

Krystal, a fast-food restaurant chain based in Atlanta, Georgia, informed customers recently that it has launched an investigation into a cybersecurity incident involving the payment processing...

NICE Actimize’s new capability improves detection rates and stops real-time payments fraud
2019-10-29 04:00

NICE Actimize, a NICE business and leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, is introducing its Federated Learning capability that will provide financial services organizations (FSOs) with...

FBI Issues Payment Card Skimming Warning
2019-10-24 21:04

DHS Joins FBI in Offering Mitigation AdviceThe FBI issued a warning this week about skimmer attacks designed to steal payment card data from e-commerce sites. The U.S. Department of Homeland...

Ransomware Hits B2B Payments Firm Billtrust
2019-10-22 19:04

Business-to-business payments provider Billtrust is still recovering from a ransomware attack that began last week. The company said it is in the final stages of bringing all of its systems back...

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company
2019-10-15 12:00

Gone: Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mercado Pago. Of six payments firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains.

Volusion Payment Platform Sites Hit by Attackers
2019-10-10 08:48

Sesame Street Live Among Sites Hit by Card-Skimming Attacks, Researcher WarnsA security researcher has uncovered credit card skimming attacks targeting websites that use a cloud-based payment...