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Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards

January 28, 2020 0 Comments bebe stores breach, buca di beppo breach, Data Breaches, gemini advisory, hilton hotels breach, Joker's stash, krystal breach, mastercard, mcalister's deli breach, moe's breach, scholtzsky's breach, sonic breach, The Coming Storm, visa, wawa breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:12:16 +0000

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground’s most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach.

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Sale of 4 Million Stolen Cards Tied to Breaches at 4 Restaurant Chains

November 26, 2019 0 Comments Data Breaches, focus brands, gemini advisory, Joker's stash, krystal breach, mcalister's deli breach, moe's breach, payment card industry security standards, pci, schlotsky's breach, The Coming Storm, verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:32:21 +0000

On Nov. 23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. KrebsOnSecurity has learned this latest batch of cards was siphoned from four different compromised restaurant chains that are most prevalent across the midwest and eastern United States.

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Ransomware Bites 400 Veterinary Hospitals

November 19, 2019 0 Comments Data Breaches, greg hartmann, laura koester, national veterinary associates, nva ransomware, Ransomware, robert hill, ryuk

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:43:18 +0000

National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a California company that owns more than 700 animal care facilities around the globe, is still working to recover from a ransomware attack late last month that affected more than half of those properties, separating many veterinary practices from their patient records, payment systems and practice management software. NVA says it expects to have all facilities fully back up and running normally within the next week.

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Breaches at NetworkSolutions, Register.com, and Web.com

October 30, 2019 0 Comments Data Breaches, domainstate.com, networksolutions breach, register.com breach, web.com breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:47:34 +0000

Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed.

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Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

October 29, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, andrei barysevich, briansclub breach, Data Breaches, gemini advisory, mastercard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, visa

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:47:58 +0000

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

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Stalkerware developer dealt new blow by FTC

October 29, 2019 0 Comments capital one, consent agreement, consent order, data breach, Data Breaches, Equifax, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, ftc bureau of consumer protection, marriott, mobilespy, motherboard, national domestic violence hotline, National Network to End Domestic Violence, phonesheriff, retina-x, retina-x studios, Stalkerware, StealthGenie, TeenSafe, uber, US Federal Trade Commission, vice

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:37 +0000

A new government front has emerged against stalkerware—the US Federal Trade Commission. Following enforcement against Retina-X and its founder, what’s next?

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Ransomware Hits B2B Payments Firm Billtrust

October 22, 2019 0 Comments billtrust ransomware attack, Data Breaches, steven pinado

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:04:21 +0000

Business-to-business payments provider Billtrust is still recovering from a ransomware attack that began last week. The company said it is in the final stages of bringing all of its systems back online from backups.

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Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts

October 21, 2019 0 Comments avast breach, Data Breaches, filehippo, jaya baloo, kenneth white, nordvpn breach, open crypto audit project, secunia personal software inspector, supply chain attack, techcrunch, zack whittaker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:32:57 +0000

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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When Card Shops Play Dirty, Consumers Win

October 16, 2019 0 Comments briansclub, Data Breaches, mrgreen, Ne'er-Do-Well News

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:13:42 +0000

Cybercrime forums have been abuzz this week over news that BriansClub — one of the underground’s largest shops for stolen credit and debit cards — had been hacked, and its inventory of 26 million cards leaked to security contacts in the banking industry. Now it appears this brazen heist may have been the result of one of BriansClub’s longtime competitors trying to knock out a rival.

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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

October 15, 2019 0 Comments allison nixon, andrei barysevich, briansclub, briansclub hack, Data Breaches, flashpoint, gemini advisory, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000

“BriansClub,” a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly’s likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.