Category Archives: credit card

Telephone Scams: Your Credit Card was Used in Fraudulent Activities

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Everyone by now should have heard about the telephone scams involving a caller who claims that they are from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) or the IRS (Internal Revenue Service). These tax agency scams generally receive the most coverage, but some don… Continue reading Telephone Scams: Your Credit Card was Used in Fraudulent Activities→

U.S. busts Romanian cybercrime ring that phished Americans, laundered millions of dollars

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U.S. authorities on Thursday announced the indictment of 20 people and the extradition of a dozen in a big bust of an organized cybercrime ring in Romania. The defendants are accused of being part of an online auction scheme that defrauded Americans of millions of dollars. The racket involved advertising nonexistent cars and other purportedly valuable items on Craigslist and eBay and tricking victims into paying for them, often using stolen identities. The fraudsters then allegedly laundered their ill-gotten gains via cryptocurrency, the Department of Justice said in a statement. In a separate, cyber-focused indictment unsealed Thursday, one of the defendants, Adrian Mitan, is accused of phishing for customers’ credit and debit card information, breaching U.S. companies, and then doing a brute-force attack on point-of-sale systems to extract more card data. The 24-year-old Romanian allegedly told American money launderers to set up credit and debit card accounts with the stolen […]

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Store Credit Card data in memory for using with native payment SDKs (iOS, Android)

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I am implementing a Credit Card processing in mobile apps for iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) using native SDK (SAQ A EP compliance level)

We thought about:

disabling clipboard for CC field
disabling tracking for add CC … Continue reading Store Credit Card data in memory for using with native payment SDKs (iOS, Android)→

Could someone commit a social engineering "hack" on a credit card processor to get my credit card number?

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Peripherally related to: Is it safe to recycle unshredded credit card receipts?.

From some basic research, it seems as though the SEQ number is internal to the company running the POS software, the AID is the registration fo… Continue reading Could someone commit a social engineering "hack" on a credit card processor to get my credit card number?→

Is there a security issue with fit4less requiring bank information and not simply card number?

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When I set up timed payments I tend to prefer setting them up through my credit card. As this tends to be more reliable in case of over charges, etc.

For example spotify goes through my credit card. The setup was done by entering my credi… Continue reading Is there a security issue with fit4less requiring bank information and not simply card number?→