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US imposes visa bans on 13 spyware makers and their families
2024-04-23 15:38

The Department of State has started imposing visa restrictions on mercenary spyware makers and peddlers, prohibiting their entry into the United States, as announced earlier in February. The crackdown has begun with 13 individuals and their close families linked to commercial spyware operations.

U.S. Imposes Visa Restrictions on 13 Linked to Commercial Spyware Misuse
2024-04-23 06:43

The U.S. Department of State on Monday said it's taking steps to impose visa restrictions on 13 individuals who are allegedly involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or who are...

UK e-visa rollout starts today for millions: no more physical immigration cards
2024-04-17 05:48

The Home Office has started rolling out e-visas for existing holders of physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits and Biometric Residence Cards. Millions of such residents will start receiving email invites from today, in batches, prompting them to create a UK Visas and Immigration account that will serve as digital proof of their legal immigration status.

UK e-visa rollout begins today: no more immigration cards for millions
2024-04-17 05:48

The Home Office has started rolling out e-visas for existing holders of physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits and Biometric Residence Cards. Millions of such residents will start receiving email invites from today, in batches, prompting them to create a UK Visas and Immigration account that will serve as digital proof of their legal immigration status.

Visa warns of new JSOutProx malware variant targeting financial orgs
2024-04-04 19:29

Visa is warning about a spike in detections for a new version of the JsOutProx malware targeting financial institutions and their customers. In a security alert from Visa's Payment Fraud Disruption unit seen by BleepingComputer and sent to card issuers, processors, and acquirers, Visa says they became aware of a new phishing campaign distributing the remote access trojan on March 27, 2024.

UK to replace physical biometric immigration cards with e-visas
2024-02-10 10:00

By 2025, Britain is set to ditch physical immigration status documents such as Biometric Residence Permits and Biometric Residence Cards in a bid to make its borders digital, which is in-line with developed countries like Australia. Presently, students, workers, immigrants and their dependents from non-EU countries residing in the UK are eventually issued Biometric Residence Permits, cards which are proof of their immigration status in the country.

U.S. Imposes Visa Restrictions on those Involved in Illegal Spyware Surveillance
2024-02-06 05:00

The U.S. State Department said it's implementing a new policy that imposes visa restrictions on individuals who are linked to the illegal use of commercial spyware to surveil civil society...

US announces visa ban on those linked to commercial spyware
2024-02-05 20:26

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken announced today a new visa restriction policy that will enable the Department of State to ban those linked to commercial spyware from entering the United States. "The State Department is implementing a new policy today that will allow the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware," Blinken said.

Swiss visa appointments cancelled in UK due to 'IT incident'
2023-07-27 11:53

All appointments for Swiss Schengen tourist and transit visa applicants have been cancelled across the UK. TLSContact, the Swiss government's chosen IT provider for facilitating visa applicants...

Visa fraud expert outlines the many faces of payment ecosystem fraud
2023-03-29 04:00

For context, digital skimming attacks occur when threat actors deploy malicious code onto a merchant website where they target their checkout pages to scrape and harvest consumer payment account data, such as primary account number, card verification value, expiration date and personally identifiable information. Cryptocurrency bridge services were a favored target for threat actors in 2022 and from January through early October 2022, the cryptocurrency ecosystem experienced 13 separate bridge attacks totaling $2B. What can payment processors and e-commerce merchants do to help protect themselves against enumeration attacks?