Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

Global lockdowns from COVID-19 have resulted in far fewer fraudsters willing or able to visit retail stores to use their counterfeit cards, and the decreased demand has severely depressed prices in the underground for purloined card data. An ad for a site selling stolen payment card data, circa March 2020. .

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Adam Levin

APRIL 10, 2019

A security analysis of 30 major banking and financial apps has shown major security holes and a lax approach to protecting user data. Other findings included improperly secured database commands (capable of allowing man-in-the-middle attacks), weak encryption, and the ability to reverse-engineer the app code into a readable format.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Earlier this week, cyber intelligence firm RiskIQ published a lengthy analysis of the hacking group that targeted Wipro, among many other companies. a major U.S.-based

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 28, 2022

Data agility, the ability to store and access your data from wherever makes the most sense, has become a priority for enterprises in an increasingly distributed and complex environment. Data fabric in action: Retail supply chain example. This removes the need for the data scientists to request access from a data owner.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

As a California-based provider of POS technology for the retail and hospitality sector, a successful infection would allow the group to obtain payment card data and later sell the information on online marketplaces.” ” reads the analysis published by Anomali.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“Our analysis suggests that Black Basta has received at least $107 million in ransom payments since early 2022, across more than 90 victims. ” Most of the victims are in the manufacturing, engineering and construction, and retail sectors. ” reads the Elliptic’s report. The average ransom payment was $1.2

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This ransomware strain emerged in September 2020, but the threat actors behind already managed to lock quite big companies, such as game developers Crytek, booksellers Barnes & Noble, and most recently a retail giant Cencosud from Chile. of victims) and Retail (14.5%). ProLock = Egregor. Inside Egregor.

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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. Agents X-Force Exchange is a cloud-based platform, and does not deploy via agents.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 20, 2022

Many end users consider MFA as cumbersome, especially when they need to access multiple applications during their working day. Many employees work in areas where mobile phones are not allowed such as production workshops, data centers, hospitals, or labs that house medical analysis equipment. Employees working on shared desktops.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

Russian financially motivated threat actor TA505 used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks on financial entities in the United States and worldwide. The hackers used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks aimed at financial entities in the United States and worldwide. ” reads the analysis published by Cyberint.

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erwin

JUNE 14, 2019

Digital Transformation in Retail. The inherently competitive nature of retail has made the sector a leader in adopting data-driven strategy. From loyalty cards to targeted online ads, retail has always had to adapt to stay relevant. This article further explores digital transformation and data governance in retail.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

” reads the analysis published by FireEye. Mandiant researchers highlighted an important with operations conducted by the TA505 cybercrime gang (aka Evil Corp ), which has been active since 2014 focusing on retail and banking sectors. ” reads the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

The vulnerability is a SQL injection vulnerability, it an be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to MOVEit Transfer’s database. “a By May 31, Rapid7 experts discovered approximately 2,500 instances of MOVEit Transfer publicly accessible on the internet, with a significant portion located in the United States.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Agent Tesla , first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from its operators’ targets.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2023

Similar AI-powered systems are being used by retailers in Australia and the United Kingdom to identify shoplifters and provide real-time tailored alerts to employees or security personnel. It’s easy to see how the AI systems being deployed by retailers to identify shoplifters could be redesigned to employ microdirectives.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 30, 2024

Retail: Manage e-commerce platforms, customer data analytics and supply chain logistics, where data analysis often must occur at the edge. Finance: Optimized for high-speed transactions and can assist in providing robust security, harnessing AI for fraud detection and real-time risk management.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Analyzing the general distribution of the compromised domains, grouped by category, it is possible to verify that the most affected were as follows: professional/companies (20.2%), personal (13.5%), retail (12.7%) and industry (11.9%). Social media/communication organizations, health care and non-profit organizations were less impacted.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 23, 2024

The speech: key points As part of his speech, Mr Rathi explained that the FCA plans to examine how Big Tech firms’ unique access to large sets of data could unlock better products, more competitive prices and wider choice for consumers and businesses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, imagine business analyst Alex is working on a data analytics project to help her retail company better quantify the success of shoe sales versus jewelry sales.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2020

issued a flash alert to warn organizations of the new threat actor targeting healthcare, government, financial, and retail industries in the US. It is still unclear if the ProLock ransomware was managed by the Qakbot gang, or if the ProLock operators pay to gain access to hosts infected with Qakbot to deliver their malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The threat group is also known for its recent attack campaign against Bank and Retail business sectors, but the latest evidence indicates a potential expansion of its criminal operation to other industries too. Technical Analysis. The tool is able to grant remote access and full, direct control of the infected machine to the group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2019

The ServHelper is a backdoor, experts analyzed two variants of it, while FlawedGrace is a remote access trojan (RAT). ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint. ” 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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

According to industry researchers, TA505 is known to have carried out attacks on banks, medical institutions retailers and other businesses in the past. During the analysis of these samples Group-IB Threat Hunting Intelligence team has identified at least two affected companies from Belgium and Germany. 126 and 37.120.145 [. ]

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

” reads the analysis published by the security firm. By May 31, Rapid7 experts discovered approximately 2,500 instances of MOVEit Transfer publicly accessible on the internet, with a significant portion located in the United States. The company has yet to determine the number of impacted employees.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Integrated supply chain analytics software, such as IBM Planning Analytics , connect complex data sets for more insightful analytics and scenario analysis that can help avoid demand-and-supply mismatches or fulfillment delays. They can also provide access to new markets, technologies, and expertise, offering a competitive advantage.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Although the ONS (Office for National Statistics) reported that retail sales fell to a six-month low in October because of reduced levels of disposable income, Black Friday is predicted to create a £10 billion shopping spree in the UK that will continue until Christmas Eve. Maintaining processes in the rush.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 20, 2022

Many end users consider MFA as cumbersome, especially when they need to access multiple applications during their working day. Many employees work in areas where mobile phones are not allowed such as production workshops, data centers, hospitals, or labs that house medical analysis equipment. Employees working on shared desktops.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This blog provides analysis of the data we’ve collected. This typically included conducting a forensic analysis to establish exactly what happened (often by engaging a third-party specialist). 27 Israeli organisations with e-commerce websites, likely in either the retail or manufacturing sector, but we can’t be sure at this time.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Luxottica Group S.p.A. Its best known brands are Ray-Ban, Persol, and Oakley.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In addition, ML techniques power tasks like speech recognition, text classification, sentiment analysis and entity recognition. When incorporating speech recognition, sentiment analysis and dialogue management, conversational AI can respond more accurately to customer needs.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2022

His startup provides analysis of customer feedback to help the retail e-commerce customers it serves. If Miles, or his ML-Ops counterpart, Leena, wants to “Deploy the Model,” they can get access to the trial license and container of the new Watson NLP Library for 180 days.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

1 As has been widely reported, the Exam Priorities’ general focus areas include: retail investors. 1 As has been widely reported, the Exam Priorities’ general focus areas include: retail investors. A Continued Focus on Retail Investors – what does this mean? compliance and risks in critical market infrastructure. cybersecurity.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. They accessed 41.5 million customers’ data having gained access via a vulnerability in Hathaway’s Laravel web application framework. HealthEC LLC breached, almost 4.5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

According to the new alert issued by the PFD, in the first incident crooks compromised compromise a North American fuel dispenser merchant using a phishing email to deliver a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) to the target network. Then the RAT was used to siphon utilized credentials and move laterally to infect a PoS system on the same network.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2019

The alert, issued in partnership with the Retail & Hospitality ISAC (information sharing and analysis centre [link] ), highlights a recent increase in malware attacks targeting e-commerce websites to gain payment card data. Online skimming is a variation of a criminal tactic used to gain access to payment card information.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. 92,391,296 known records breached in 222 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. GB Signature Performance, Inc.

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