Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Chilean-based retail giant Cencosud has suffered a ransomware attack that impacted operations at its stores, Egregor ransomware appears to be involved. A ransomware attack, allegedly launched by the Egregor ransomware gang, hit the Chilean-based retail giant Cencosud, the incident impacted operations at its stores. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

The Canadian Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the largest beverage alcohol retailer in the country, disclosed Magecart attack. Canadian Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the largest beverage alcohol retailer in the country, disclosed a Magecart attack on January 10, 2023. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Costco Wholesale Corporation discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to customers’ payment card information. Retail giant Costco Wholesale Corporation notified its customers of a data breach that might have exposed their payment card information. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Earlier this year, The Retail Equation, a loss prevention service provider, and Sephora were hit with a class action lawsuit in which the plaintiff claimed Sephora improperly shared consumer data with The Retail Equation without consumers’ knowledge or consent.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2023

Retailer WH Smith disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack, threat actors had access to access company data. Retailer WH Smith revealed that threat actors have breached its infrastructure and had access to the data of about 12,500 current and former employees.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The post How to Handle Retail SaaS Security on Cyber Monday the Hacker News first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Retail giant Target is going to open-source an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker , designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Retail giant Target announced the release in open-source of an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker , designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

American clothing brand and retailer Guess discloses a data breach after the February ransomware attack and is notifying the affected customers. The company told BleepingComputer that threat actors had no access to customer payment card information and that the security breach did not have a material impact on operations or financial results.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2021

fine under GDPR against the online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB for video-monitoring employees. million fine under the GDPR against an online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB’s (notebooksbilliger.de) for video-monitoring employees for at least a couple of years. .” The post German laptop retailer fined €10.4m

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This is an extraordinary and unprecedented time for the retail industry. Hunton Andrews Kurth’s 2020 Retail Industry Year in Review provides an in-depth analysis of the issues and challenges that retailers faced in the past year, and a look ahead at what they can expect in 2021.

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Data Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Enforcement (EXAMS or Division) issued its annual examination priorities. Private Fund, ESG Investing, Retail Investors, Cybersecurity, Fintech, and Digital Assets.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Skanlog, a critical distributor for Systembolaget, the Swedish government-owned retail chain suffered a ransomware attack. It operates stores across Sweden and is responsible for the retail sale of wine, spirits, and strong beer. “It Systembolaget has a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.5%

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 11, 2020

On August 5, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it has levied a fine of €250,000 on French online shoe retailer, Spartoo, for various infringements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

American retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories AutoZone discloses a data breach after a MOVEit attack. AutoZone is an American retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories. The company is one of the largest aftermarket automotive parts and accessories retailers in the United States.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Government officials in the country of just over 600,000 people said certain government services remained temporarily disabled for security reasons and that the data of citizens and businesses were not endangered. Polovic said some retail tax collection was affected.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams, coinciding with a surge in retail and online transactions. Middle Eastern enterprises, facing this heightened risk, are urged to bolster consumer protection and reinforce their brand security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2020

E-Land Retail suffered a ransomware attack, Clop ransomware operators claim to have stolen 2 million credit cards from the company. E-Land Retail is a South Korean conglomerate headquartered in Changjeon-dong Mapo-gu Seoul, South Korea. It has operations worldwide through its subsidiary E-Land World.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

This group primarily focused its attacks on the construction, manufacturing/industrial, and retail industries.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Giant office retail company Staples disclosed a data breach, threat actors accessed some of its customers’ order data. Staples, the office retail giant, disclosed a data breach, it notified its customers that their order data have been accessed by threat actors without authorization.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

I had the chance to learn more about ABE from Brent Waters, a distinguished scientist in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research. From what I learned from Waters, this capability appears to be exactly what’s needed to dramatically improve security where it really counts: at the data layer.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 12, 2018

On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The parent firm of bling retailers Jared and Kay Jewelers has fixed a bug in the Web sites of both companies that exposed the order information for all of their online customers. When several weeks passed and Sheehy could still view his information and that of other Jared customers, he reached out to KrebsOnSecurity.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2021

The company detected the security breach on January 6, 2021, and determined that the intrusion took place early this year, on January 4th, 2021. Then threat actors tricked UScellular employees working in retail stores into downloading and installing malicious software. ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

In early January, the Cactus ransomware group claimed to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Schneider Electric)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In early January, the Cactus ransomware group claimed to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2024

The TA547 group sent emails to the victims impersonating the German retail company Metro, purportedly related to invoices. In past campaigns, the group used a PowerShell script likely generated by large language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT , Gemini, CoPilot, etc.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2024

The company produces video doorbells under the brand names EKEN and Tuck, its products are by major retailers, including Amazon, Walmart, Shein, Sears and Temu. Researchers from Consumer Reports (CR) discovered severe vulnerabilities in doorbell cameras manufactured by the Chinese company Eken Group Ltd.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

CyberNews researchers reported that Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Original post @ [link]. It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking, an old Irish proverb says.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

“After reviewing thousands of posts, the OAG compiled login credentials for customer accounts at 17 well-known companies, which included online retailers, restaurant chains, and food delivery services. The experts analyzed thousands of posts containing login credentials. In all, the OAG collected credentials for more than 1.1

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Cyber security firm Venafi announced it has uncovered lookalike domains with valid TLS certificates that appear to target major retailers. is a private cybersecurity company that develops software to secure and protect cryptographic keys and digital certificates. retailers with over 49,500 typosquatted domains.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The malware was used in attacks against multiple industries, including education, real estate, retail, non-profit organizations, telecom companies, and governments. Unit42 researchers uncovered a new backdoor named Agent Raccoon, which is being used in attacks against organizations in the Middle East, Africa, and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Other campaigns observed by the experts invited recipients to claim gift cards from popular retailers like Home Depot. In this case, the spam messages include links to fake online survey pages that have nothing to do with the retailer’s gift card.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cyber security team at retail giant Walmart dissected a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which implements a ransomware-as-a-service model. The cyber threat team at retail giant Walmart has analyzed a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which is offered through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

The securWizCase experts found a major breach that affected the popular online retailer Cosmolog Kozmetik. WizCase’s security team, led by Ata Hakç?l, l, has found a major breach in popular online retailer Cosmolog Kozmetik’s database. Hundreds of thousands of users were compromised in the breach. What’s Happening?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

PoC publicly available Linux variant of Cerber ransomware targets Atlassian servers Ivanti fixed two critical flaws in its Avalanche MDM Researchers released exploit code for actively exploited Palo Alto PAN-OS bug Cisco warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against VPN and SSH services PuTTY SSH Client flaw allows of private keys recovery A renewed (..)

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

This was reported to Vedomosti by four participants in this market, a representative of a large retailer and an employee of a specialized association.” ” reported Vedomosti “Apparently, we are talking about DDoS attacks.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

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. The investigation into the security breach is still ongoing. “We Luxottica Group S.p.A.

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