Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

” Gemini’s director of research Stas Alforov stressed that some of the 30 million cards advertised for sale as part of this BIGBADABOOM batch may in fact be sourced from breaches at other retailers, something Joker’s Stash has been known to do in previous large batches. 10 and contained the breach by Dec.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

One security expert at a PCM customer who was recently notified about the incident said the intruders appeared primarily interested in stealing information that could be used to conduct gift card fraud at various retailers and financial institutions. earlier this year. Insight has not yet responded to requests for comment.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

” The TA505 group was first spotted by Proofpoint back 2017, it has been active at least since 2015 and targets organizations in financial and retail industries. “On December 13, 2018, we observed another large ServHelper “downloader” campaign targeting retail and financial services customers.” The support for “.bit”

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IT Financial Services Retail Ransomware 89

Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. The Iran-linked cyberespionage group APT33 has updated its infrastructure after the publication of a report detailing its activities. South Korean, and Europe.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

net circa 2016, which shows it was the homepage of a pay-per-install affiliate program that incentivized the silent installation of 911’s proxy software. The 911 service as it existed until July 28, 2022. A cached copy of flashupdate[.]net “Not sure how did the hacker get in,” the 911 message reads.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Oracle launched OCI in October 2016. Honoring data sovereignty Name any business use case: banking, retail, healthcare, government, military, entertainment, elections. Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2021

The group has been active since 2016, it leverages known malware such as PUNCHTRACK and BADHATCH to infect PoS systems and steal payment card data. The group focuses on organizations in the insurance, retail, technology, and chemical industries in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Italy.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Markets and Use Cases In 2015, when IBM launched the X-Force Exchange it noted that six of the world’s top 10 retailers and five of the world’s top 10 banks were part of the 1,000+ organizations contributing to the X-Force Exchange threat database. In 2016, IBM also announced shared threat intelligence feeds with Check Point.

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Retail Cloud Access Privacy 90

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

This trend remained constant from 2016 to 2018. Although some bad bot use cases, such as content scraping and account takeover, are prevalent across different sectors, others, like scalping, usually impact specific industries like online retail and entertainment (ticketing). of internet traffic, while good bots accounted for 19.4%

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Digital transformation Retail Access Encryption 71

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Bondars is one of the two hackers found to have been running Scan4you from 2009 to 2016, its service was very popular in the cybercrime community and was used by malware developers to test their malicious codes. The man pleaded guilty to the same Bondars’s charges in March 2018. billion. .

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Claimants claimed damages for misuse of confidential information, breach of confidence, negligence, damages under Article 82 of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/279 and s169 Data Protection Act 2018 1 , plus a declaration and an injunction, interest and further or other relief. Background. The de minimis threshold.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If I can avoid talking about the joys of the upcoming election and/or the politics of Silicon Valley billionaires, I’m optimistic I’ll return to form. As always, I am going to write this post with no prep and in one stream-of-conscious sitting. Let’s get to it. The AI party takes a pause.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s worth noting that there’s no reason a legitimate retailer would need that last one — the skeleton key to your identity — to process a purchase.). Shop at reputable and recognizable retailers. If you’re shopping at a retailer that is new to you, research the company’s standing on the Better Business Bureau website.

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Retail e-Delivery Passwords Phishing 97

CGI

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Fri, 11/11/2016 - 01:07. On June 20, 2016, CGI held a roundtable discussion on dynamic rating and pricing in the insurance industry that involved nearly all major Dutch insurers. Pricing is highly developed in the retail sector and often is strategically positioned within an organization directly under the CEO. Dynamic pricing.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Recent judicial interpretations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), 740 ILCS 14, present potential litigation risks for retailers who employ biometric-capture technology, such as facial recognition, retina scan or fingerprint software. 1540 (2016) purposes by alleging a violation of his right to privacy.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. According to the report published by the US-CERT, Hidden Cobra has been using the FASTCash technique since at least 2016, the APT group targets bank infrastructure to cash out ATMs.

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Retail Libraries Phishing Authentication 86

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In 2016, 108.5 This year is expected to see similarly high numbers which is paralleled by increasing retailer anxiety about the state of their cybersecurity. In fact, according to our recent survey of retailers , 88% feel vulnerable to data threats. million Americans shopped online over the long weekend.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Assuming privacy concerns get addressed, much wider consumer uses are envisioned in areas such as marketing, retailing and health services. According to Allied Market Research, the facial recognition systems market is in the midst of rising at a compounded annual growth rate of 21% between 2016 to 2022. billion by 2022.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2019

As people have growing opportunities to shop online, the chances for hackers to carry out lucrative cyberattacks in the retail sector also go up. Statistics from 2016 showed that the average cost per compromised retail record was $172. People are becoming less tolerant of retailers that have widescale data breaches.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Ferizi is the first man charged with cyber terrorism that was extradited to the US early 2016. The KHS breached a database of a US retailer was able to identify the records belonging to military and government personnel. The man was charged with hacking crimes and providing support to a terrorist organization.

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Military Government Retail Risk 88

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year. The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable.

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Financial Services Libraries Mining Retail 69

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2021

In late 2019, the Claimant issued proceedings and sought various relief, including in connection with an allegation that the Defendant had failed to provide data, contrary to the Data Protection Act 2018 ( “DPA 18” ) and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ( “GDPR” ).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

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. The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million card records for sale.

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CGI

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Early 2018 will mark the beginning of a new era for the UK’s retail banks. When the very first apps appeared on smartphones over a decade ago, few could have predicted the resulting explosion of innovation that led to the creation of a global app economy worth over US$40bn in 2016. p.butler@cgi.com. Tue, 10/17/2017 - 01:03.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I love advertising – particularly digital advertising. There, I said it. Was that so hard? Well, yes, the industry I’ve partnered with for more than three decades can be very difficult to defend – and the past ten or fifteen years have been particularly bad. So yeah, I love advertising. And I kind of hate it too. So will Amazon.

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Marketing Retail Sales IT 59

IT Governance

DECEMBER 8, 2017

It will come as no surprise that Christmas is by far the busiest period for online shopping , with online sales accounting for £25 billion during Christmas 2016 (IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, January 2017). The festive period is an ideal time for cyber criminals to strike. 10 tips to stay safe.

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Sales Retail Security awareness Risk 63

IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

India-based electronics retailer Vijay Sales made to pay for misconfigured database (unknown). Settlement reached in lawsuit over 2016 hack of Quest Diagnostics. Thankfully, we’ve only found 67 incidents this month, with a total of 832,486,418 affected records – which is only slightly higher than last month’s figures. Cyber attacks.

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 143

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

According to The Register , the online retail giant emailed affected customers on Tuesday, unapologetically saying: Hello, We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your name and email address due to a technical error. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 November.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Demisto launched in May 2016.

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Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

In August 2016, security expert Martin Vigo devised a method to abuse an optional SMS-based feature that allowed users to authorize payments by replying to an SMS message with a provided 6-digit code. Researcher leaked online a dataset containing over 7,000,000 transactions scraped from the Venmo public API.

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Retail Privacy Access Security 81

eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2021

The latest evaluations were dubbed Carbanak+FIN7 and were modeled after threat groups that target the banking and retail industries. APT 29 was behind two of the more notorious attacks of recent years, the 2016 DNC and 2020 SolarWinds hacks, so the MITRE evaluations are among the most rigorous testing a cybersecurity product can face.

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Analytics Cybersecurity Marketing Retail 134

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan between 2015 and 2016, most of the victims were in the United States and Europe. The GozNym has been seen targeting banking institutions, credit unions, and retail banks.

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Computer and Electronics Retail Access Security 58

Data Matters

JANUARY 16, 2019

In fiscal year (FY) 2018, the OCIE National Exam Program examined approximately 17 percent of SEC-registered advisers (RIAs), up from 15 percent during FY 2017 and 11 percent during FY 2016. Continued Focus on Retail Investors. On December 20, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the U.S.

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Retail Compliance Risk Marketing 68

Collibra

APRIL 4, 2023

When he joined in 2016, data governance was still a new concept for many organizations. One example of how I was able to do this at Collibra is when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was published, in 2016 and later implemented EU wide, in May 2018. Tudor Borlea is a Senior Manager, Sales Engineering at Collibra.

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Sales GDPR Marketing Government 52

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. Prometei has been observed to be active in systems across a variety of industries, including: Finance, Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities, Travel, and Construction.”

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Mining Retail Insurance Manufacturing 63

Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

The last time security experts documented the FIN8’s activities was in 2016 and 2017. At the time, FireEye and root9B published detailed reports about a series of attacks targeting the retail sector. ” reads the analysis published by Morphisec. ” continues the analysis.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The online fashion retailer SHEIN (I’ve probably pronounced that wrong) has said that it suffered a data breach from June to August this year involving the personal information of approximately 6.42 Big numbers this week: we discuss a data breach affecting 6.42 Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 28 September.

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