Worldwide $45m ATM cyber-heist highlights vulnerabilities in card security
Written by v2r on May 11, 2013 – 8:09 am -An international gang of cyber thieves stole $45 million using bank ATMs in a heist spread across 27 countries. The attack showed off some of the vulnerabilities of current financial security systems. U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said that the suspects had “participated in a massive 21st century bank heist that reached across ...
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Lack of Chip and PIN technology leaves US shoppers and diners at risk from hackers
Written by v2r on May 8, 2013 – 12:26 pm -Despite being one of the biggest economies for the retail and 'food and beverage' industries, the US lacks basic card protection that could prevent data thieves from Americans' bank accounts. ...
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California duo charged with selling ready-to-hack Point-of-Sale systems to Subway branches
Written by v2r on March 18, 2013 – 10:50 pm -A pair of former Subway franchisees from California have been charged with cyberfraud against their former fellows. The DoJ alleges they sold pre-compromised PoS systems that allowed them to plunder gift card credits from afar......
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Indian two-factor authentication fraudsters busted by Delhi cops
Written by v2r on January 20, 2013 – 4:59 am -Two more alleged cybercrooks are cooling their heels in custody this weekend. The modern-day bank robbers are said to have run a scam that allowed them to work around the two-factor authentication protection offered by the victims' banks....
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Diamonds are forever, and so are investment scams
Written by v2r on December 10, 2012 – 11:30 am -While it might sometimes seem as though I spend all my time tracking scams and hoaxes, it’s not actually the case. ESET’s core business is still (real) malware. And in fact, there are plenty of scams that slide on and off my radar too quickly for me to take much notice. For instance, academic journal scams (I’ll ...
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New Support Scam Gambits: Frozen Virus a Frozen Turkey
Written by v2r on November 21, 2012 – 4:15 pm -David Jacoby's excellent work on researching phone support scams (good to meet you at Virus Bulletin this year, David!) has been mentioned here before, and he's just put up another blog article with some useful info on one or two gambits I haven't seen before. First of all, the scammer told him he was infected with the ...
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Support Scams and the Surveillance Society
Written by v2r on November 19, 2012 – 10:00 am -Here's a slightly different approach to PC 'support' scamming, flagged by an anonymous reader of one of my blogs on the CLSID gambit the scammers often make use of to con you into thinking they really know something about your PC, and can therefore (for a fee) help you with a system problem that they claim you have R...
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TNS24 – a fake courier company website, used by online scammers
Written by v2r on November 15, 2012 – 5:27 pm -Look out for Photoshop disasters by fraudsters and scammers....
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Windows 8: there’s more to security than the Operating System
Written by v2r on November 5, 2012 – 11:00 am -[Update: second screenshot was removed temporarily to remove the URL, and is now replaced with a cropped version.] There are things almost as certain as death and taxes: crime is one of them. And there are certain events that always seem to trigger certain kinds of cybercrime. One is disaster, natural or man-made. So my colleague U...
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Online Shopping and a Phishing Pheeding Phrenzy [3]
Written by v2r on October 31, 2012 – 2:21 pm -Phish Avoidance Here’s a shortened and updated version of the advice that David Harley and Andrew Lee gave to potential phish victims in an earlier paper. The infographic isn’t from the paper, but has been used by ESET before, notably in a blog article by Randy Abrams. You may still find it useful, but bear in mind that phi...
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