Fraudulent websites are targeting holiday shoppers looking for a bargain November 27, 2019 Americans spent more than $6 billion online on Black Friday last year. As millions of people start to search for Black Friday bargains this holiday season, some are being targeted by scam artists. The scams can come in many forms, and one cropping up more and more is fraudulent websites that look exactly like the real thing for big names like Apple, Amazon or Walmart. Details
SwigCast, Episode 4: MAGECART December 10, 2019 How secure are your online payments? In the fourth episode of SwigCast, we tackle card skimmers and the evolution of Magecart Details
Year in Review: Cybercrime December 5, 2019 In recent years, the definition of cybercrime has evolved from traditional calculations based on the cost of stolen information and to now factoring in ransomware and attacks on industrial control systems and IoT devices. Details
Skimming Campaign Leveraged Heroku Cloud Platform: Report December 5, 2019 Malwarebytes: Platform Used to Host Card Skimmer Infrastructure, Payment Data Details
Salesforce’s Heroku Used to Host Magecart Skimmers, Stolen Cards December 4, 2019 Magecart threat actors have been spotted this week while starting to abuse Salesforce’s Heroku cloud application platform to host their card skimming scripts and to store stolen payment card info. Details
A decade of malware: Top botnets of the 2010s December 3, 2019 ZDNet goes over the list of biggest malware botnets of the past decade, from Necurs to Mirai. Details
Weekly Security News Roundup: Dexphot Used Obfuscation, Fileless Tactics and Polymorphism December 3, 2019 RiskIQ observed that a threat actor named Fullz House began conducting card skimming in addition to maintaining its phishing activity. For these new attacks, Fullz House developed its own card skimmer and used man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks in e-commerce transactions. Details
4 Cyber Monday scams to avoid in 2019: Phishing, pyramid schemes and more December 2, 2019 Pyramid schemes disguised as gift exchanges, virtual card skimmers and other digital traps are set and waiting for you when you shop online. Details
Magento Marketplace suffers data breach exposing confidential details of users November 29, 2019 Users of one of the world’s most popular e-commerce marketplaces have been informed that their account information may have been stolen after a data breach at the firm. Details
