What if someone know the Card number, CVV, expiration date and card holder name of a credit card? [on hold]

A person who doesn’t have physical access to the card, but who knows the Card number, CVV, expiration date and card holder name, could make purchases with that card?

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Russian hackers sentenced to prison in US for compromising 160 million credit cards

Two Muscovites have been sentenced to years in prison for their roles in the biggest data breach conspiracy ever prosecuted in the United States. Three co-conspirators are still at large. Vladimir Drinkman, 37 and Dmitriy Smilianets, 34, had previously… Continue reading Russian hackers sentenced to prison in US for compromising 160 million credit cards

Hackers who stole $300 million, hacked Citibank & Nasdaq are jailed

By Uzair Amir
Two Russian Hackers Charged with Running America’s Largest Credit-Card Information
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Two Russians sentenced to prison for role in hacks against U.S. companies

Two Russian men were sentenced to prison in the United States on Wednesday after they pleaded guilty to their roles in one of the largest hacking schemes to ever hit the U.S. Vladimir Drinkman, 37, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison and Dmitriy Smilianets, 34, to 51 months and 21 days in prison. The pair were arrested in the Netherlands in 2012 and pleaded guilty in 2015. Prosecutors said there were 17 corporate victims, and three of them alone lost more than $300 million combined. As friends in Moscow, Drinkman and Smilianets “targeted major corporate networks, compromised 160 million credit card numbers and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses,” according to the Justice Department. “Drinkman and Smilianets not only stole over 160 million credit card numbers from credit card processors, banks, retailers, and other corporate victims, they also used their bounty to fuel a robust underground market for hacked […]

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Dark Web’s largest cybercrime group indicted after stealing $530M

By Waqas
Infraud organization is the largest group of cybercriminals on Dark
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Newly uncovered malware uses DNS requests to siphon credit card data

Researchers have discovered new malware that relies on a unique way to steal credit card information from point-of-sale systems. In a blog post published on Thursday, Forepoint says its found malware that uses Domain Name System (DNS) requests in order to extract credit card information. That sets it apart from most other POS malware, which would normally use HTTP requests to exfiltrate data. Luke Somerville, head of special investigations for Forcepoint Labs, says companies would normally look for unusual activity in their HTTP requests in order to detect data theft. Somerville says the malware, which it is dubbing “UDPoS”, hasn’t affected any of Forcepoint’s customers, but that “there may well be people out there who we’re not protecting who may have been affected by this.” He added that Forcepoint was able to prove that the malware could successfully steal credit card data. “They’re kind of just sneaking the data out […]

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