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Bob Uphues reports: First National Bank of Brookfield‘s president last week said an investigation continues into the use of a card skimmer on its drive-thru ATM to gain PIN numbers of a large number of debit cards used during the weekend of Oct. … Continue reading IL: Brookfield bank investigating ATM fraud
Modern credit card skimmers hidden in self-service gas pumps communicate via Bluetooth. There’s now an app that can detect them: The team from the University of California San Diego, who worked with other computer scientists from the University of Illinois, developed an app called Bluetana which not only scans and detects Bluetooth signals, but can actually differentiate those coming from… Continue reading Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
A Romanian national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts, in connection with a multi-state ATM card skimming scheme. The following information is provided by the Department of Justice: Assistant Attorney General Brian… Continue reading Romanian National Sentenced for Multi-State ATM Card Skimming Scheme
Interesting research paper: "Fear the Reaper: Characterization and Fast Detection of Card Skimmers": Abstract: Payment card fraud results in billions of dollars in losses annually. Adversaries increasingly acquire card data using skimmers, which are attached to legitimate payment devices including point of sale terminals, gas pumps, and ATMs. Detecting such devices can be difficult, and while many experts offer advice… Continue reading Detecting Credit Card Skimmers
Zack Whittaker reports: Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer’s payments page which remained for more than a month between August 14 and September 18, Yo… Continue reading Hackers stole customer credit cards in Newegg data breach
Charlie Osborne reports: Customers of ABS-CBN may be facing the possibility of the theft of their financial data due to a payment skimmer which has been discovered in the major Filipino broadcaster’s online store. According to Dutch security rese… Continue reading PH: Broadcaster ABS-CBN customer data stolen, sent to Russian servers
Watch how someone installs a credit card skimmer in just a couple of seconds. I don’t know if the skimmer just records the data and is collected later, or if it transmits the data back to some base station…. Continue reading Installing a Credit Card Skimmer on a POS Terminal
Notice of Data Breach On January 19, 2018, HomeTown Bank, N.A. (“HomeTown”) discovered that a skimming/shimming device had been placed on an ATM at the bank’s branch located at 4424 Seawall Blvd, Galveston, TX 77551. Upon learning of the incident, Home… Continue reading TX: HomeTown Bank Data Breach
Russian authorities have broken up a crime ring involving a hacker and willing gas-station employees who have used malicious software to cheat customers of gas. Continue reading Hacker Infects Gas Pumps with Code to Cheat Customers
It’s hard to tell, but it sounds like skimmers were involved in this one? Dunya News reports: Cyber hackers have stolen at least Rs 10million in a development that was reported Monday from some 600 bank accounts of multiple banks. One of the vict… Continue reading ‘Cyber heist’: 600 bank accounts hacked for Rs 10million