Wawa Breach: Hackers Put 30 Million Stolen Payment Card Details for Sale

Remember the recent payment card breach at Wawa convenience stores?

If you’re among those millions of customers who shopped at any of 850 Wawa stores last year but haven’t yet hotlisted your cards, it’s high time to take immediate action.

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Landry’s Restaurant Chain Suffers Payment Card Theft Via PoS Malware

Landry’s, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale (POS) systems that allowed cybercriminals to steal customers’ payment card information.

Landry’s owns and operates more than 600 bars, resta… Continue reading Landry’s Restaurant Chain Suffers Payment Card Theft Via PoS Malware

Hackers Stole Customers’ Payment Card Details From Over 700 Wawa Stores

Have you stopped at any Wawa convenience store and used your payment card to buy gas or snacks in the last nine months?

If yes, your credit and debit card details may have been stolen by cybercriminals.

Wawa, the Philadelphia-based gas and convenienc… Continue reading Hackers Stole Customers’ Payment Card Details From Over 700 Wawa Stores

Staying Vigilant About Retail Security Does Not End on Black Friday

As one of the most targeted industries, retailers should be taking measures to build a secure infrastructure ahead of the holidays and keep retail security evolving and maturing all year long.

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Hackers Stole Customers’ Credit Cards from 103 Checkers and Rally’s Restaurants

If you have swiped your payment card at the popular Checkers and Rally’s drive-through restaurant chains in past 2-3 years, you should immediately request your bank to block your card and notify it if you notice any suspicious transaction.

Checkers, o… Continue reading Hackers Stole Customers’ Credit Cards from 103 Checkers and Rally’s Restaurants

IT threat evolution Q1 2019. Statistics

In Q1 2019, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more types of malware designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 243,604 users and detected attacks using miners on the computers of 1,197,066 users. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q1 2019. Statistics

Hide it well or market it well: Two reports show how point-of-sale malware has users in mind

Sometimes the little things can help cybercriminals separate their wares from the pack. It could be an uncommon feature in the malware itself, or it could just be a new way to market a familiar strategy. In unrelated reports Wednesday, cybersecurity companies detailed DMSniff, which takes a new approach to remaining stealthy as it steals point-of-sale (POS) information from consumers, as well as GlitchPOS, which steals credit-card information in a familiar way but comes with an instructional video from its creators. Threat intelligence company Flashpoint reports that DMSniff has quietly been in active use since 2016 thanks in part to a domain generation algorithm, which allows hackers to continue siphoning data from a web page even after police or researchers have taken hackers’ domain pages offline. Flashpoint notes that the use of such an algorithm is “rarely seen” in the smash-and-grab world of POS malware, where thieves typically distribute malware to as many sites as possible and […]

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