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Advertising network compromised to deliver credit card stealing code

RiskIQ says it's been working with AbuseCH and the ShadowServer Foundation to take down Group 12's server infrastructure, which appears to have been set up two months before the Adverline hack ... and ... read more

Cybercrime: So Simple Anyone Can Do It

In spite of vendors’ and enterprises’ best efforts to the contrary, hackers invariably come up with new ways of infiltrating ... just to make things interesting. One hacker group using Magecart for mo... read more

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2018

The SamSam ransomware strain had already had a remarkable run, targeting hospitals and universities and other victims with reason to pay up fast ... and more all got hit. In fact, they all got comprom... read more

Ticketmaster breach part of worldwide card-skimming campaign

campaign that's affected more than 800 e-commerce sites. According to researchers at the threat intelligence company RiskIQ Inc., the hacking group ... activities of Magecart since 2015 and said attac... read more

RiskIQ Finds Ticketmaster Breach Part of Massive Credit Card Skimming Campaign Affecting over 800 e-Commerce Sites

The report highlights how Magecart has evolved tactically from hacking sites directly, to now targeting widely used third-party components. This approach grants them access to even more victims—someti... read more

Cyber Security Stories From 2018 You Should Know About

Since then we have seen more ... up. In July, we published a blog detailing how the threat actors behind Emotet had updated the malware, and were no longer just using it as a banking Trojan, but rathe... read more

How a hacked phone number cost Jered Kenna millions in bitcoins

More than 30% of those surveyed were not familiar with ransomware or perceive it as a low threat ... cards to rack up charges; gotten into Dropbox accounts containing copies of passports, credit cards ... read more

Taking the NBA’s Temperature: Clearing Up Some Big-Picture Questions

It’s not something that’s instinctive for any basketball player, from the youth level all the way up through here.” Cleveland isn’t there yet. No team has finished more possessions ... has managed to ... read more

VoIP fraud explained

However, these types of systems also create more inroads for attack ... from which attackers can make VoIP calls from the victim’s phone or VoIP infrastructure. Those calls might be used to rack up ch... read more

380,000 British Airways Customers Victims of Only 22 Lines of JavaScript

After their internal investigation of the hacking incident, British Airways disclosed that ... RiskIQ detected found out that the Magecart threat group conducted the attack after BA's report mentioned ... read more