13 Retail Payment Security Tips for Safe 2019 Holiday Shopping

The holiday shopping season brings a spike in payment security threats for both consumers and retailers. Here are 13 ways to protect your sensitive data against retail cybercrime this year.

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How Will Strong Customer Authentication Impact the Security of Electronic Payments?

Reading Time: 3 minutes The EU’s updated Payment Services Directive, PSD2, will introduce a new technical standard that regulates strong customer authentication (SCA).

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Bayrob malware gang convicted of infecting over 400,000 computers worldwide, stealing millions through online auction fraud

A US court has convicted two Romanian hackers belonging to the Bayrob malware gang after they infected over 400,000 computers around the world, and stole millions of dollars. Bogdan Nicolescu (aka “Masterfraud”) and Radu Miclaus (aka &#8220… Continue reading Bayrob malware gang convicted of infecting over 400,000 computers worldwide, stealing millions through online auction fraud

Historical OSINT – Profiling a Portfolio of Fake Visa Application Scam Domains

It’s been a while since I last posted a quality update profiling a versatile currently circulating malicious and fraudulent spam campaign profiling and highlighting the fraudulent and malicious activities of the cybercriminals behind the campaign.

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Historical OSINT – Profiling a Rogue and Malicious Domain Portfolio of OEM-Pirated Software

In a cybercrime-ecosystem dominated by fraudulent and malicious releases cybercriminals continue relying on fraudulent and potentially-malicious affiliate-based type of revenue-sharing schemes for the purpose of serving fraudulent and malicious softwar… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Profiling a Rogue and Malicious Domain Portfolio of OEM-Pirated Software

Historical OSINT – Profiling a Typosquatted Facebook and Twitter Impersonating Fraudulent and Malicious Domains Portfolio

With cybercriminals continuing to populate the cybercrime ecosystem with hundreds of malicious released including a variety of typosquatted domains it shouldn’t be surprising that hundreds of thousands of users continue falling victim to fraudulent and… Continue reading Historical OSINT – Profiling a Typosquatted Facebook and Twitter Impersonating Fraudulent and Malicious Domains Portfolio

Dunkin’ Donuts Loyalty Points Accounts Are Dirt Cheap on the Dark Web

This week Dunkin’ Donuts announced hackers had broken into customers’ loyalty accounts. So what happens to them once hackers have a wad of loyalty points? Continue reading Dunkin’ Donuts Loyalty Points Accounts Are Dirt Cheap on the Dark Web

Retail Security Hygiene: The Case for Seasonal Checkups

Retail companies should conduct security hygiene checkups as early as possible this holiday season to identify key threats across e-commerce systems, seasonal staffing policies and employee behaviors.

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Easy Does It! A Timely Look Into Fraud TTPs in the Brazilian Financial Cybercrime Landscape

In this first article of a two-part series, IBM X-Force exposes some of its research on the typical malware and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used in Brazilian financial cybercrime.

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Fraud attempts to jump 14% during 2018 peak holiday shopping season, benchmark data indicates

Fraud attempts will likely increase 14% during the 2018 peak holiday season between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, according to new benchmark data from ACI Worldwide. The banking solutions provider revealed its projected increase in fraud attempts … Continue reading Fraud attempts to jump 14% during 2018 peak holiday shopping season, benchmark data indicates