Categories: News Tags: ftc Tags: tech support scam Tags: scammers Tags: payment processor Tags: fine Tags: visa Tags: chargeback We take a look at a story involving the FTC going head to head with a payment processor caught up in tech support scam allegations. |
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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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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.
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:55:30 +0000
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| A roundup of the security news from September 16–22 including Emotet, student-targeted visa scams, data privacy laws, Malwarebytes’ new Browser Guard, data destruction, and more. Categories: Tags: amazonBrowser guarddata destructioneducation cybersecurityemotetGoogleGoogle ChromeInstagramphishingprivacy lawS3bucketsvisavisa scamyoutube |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:49:40 +0000
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| Visa scammers are at it again, this time targeting Chinese international students in the UK. Learn how these scams work in order to steer clear, and advise others to do the same. Categories: Tags: chinaChinese studentshome officehong kongmoney mulescamukUKVIuniversitiesuniversityvisawire fraud |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:27:10 +0000
On Sunday, Aug. 12, KrebsOnSecurity carried an exclusive: The FBI was warning banks about an imminent “ATM cashout” scheme about to unfold across the globe, thanks to a data breach at an unknown financial institution. On Aug. 14, a bank in India disclosed hackers had broken into its servers, stealing nearly $2 million in fraudulent bank transfers and $11.5 million unauthorized ATM withdrawals from more than two dozen cash machines across multiple countries.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:59:44 +0000
Previous stories here on the proliferation of card-skimming devices hidden inside fuel pumps have offered a multitude of security tips for readers looking to minimize their chances of becoming the next victim, such as favoring filling stations that use security cameras and tamper-evident tape on their pumps. But according to police in San Antonio, Texas, there are far more reliable ways to avoid getting skimmed at a fuel station.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:28:31 +0000
Sonic Drive-In, a fast-food chain with nearly 3,600 locations across 45 U.S. states, has acknowledged a breach affecting an unknown number of store payment card systems. The ongoing breach may have led to a fire sale on millions of stolen credit and debit card accounts that are now being peddled in shadowy underground cybercrime stores, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
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