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4 Jun 2018

Hackers target Booking.com in criminal bid to steal hundreds of thousands from customers

Cyber crooks have targeted travel firm Booking.com in a bid to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from customers. Users were sent WhatsApp and text messages claiming a security breach meant they needed to change their password.

But the link gave hackers access to bookings and they then sent follow-up messages demanding full payment for holidays in advance with bogus bank details provided. These appeared genuine as they included personal data including names, addresses, phone numbers, dates and prices of bookings, and reference numbers. Marketing manager David Watts got a WhatsApp message but realised it was a scam. 

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18 May 2018

The SEC created its own scammy ICO to teach investors a lesson

In its latest effort to fend off cryptocurrency scams, the Securities and Exchange Commission launched its own fake initial coin offering website today called the Howey Coin to warn people against fraudulent cryptocurrencies.

The name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Howey Test that the SEC uses to determine whether an investment is a security, which the Commission would therefore have legal jurisdiction over. Click ‘Buy Coins Now’ on the Howey Coins site and you’ll be redirected to an SEC page that states: “We created the bogus HoweyCoins.com site as an educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud involving digital assets like crypto-currencies and coin offerings.” 

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The Verge
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3 Apr 2018

Saks, Lord & Taylor hit by payment card data breach

Retailer Hudson’s Bay Co on Sunday disclosed that it was the victim of a security breach that compromised data on payment cards used at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America.

One cyber security firm said that it has evidence that millions of cards may have been compromised, which would make the breach one of the largest involving payment cards over the past year, but added that it was too soon to confirm whether that was the case. Toronto-based Hudson’s Bay said in a statement that it had “taken steps to contain” the breach but did not say it had succeeded in confirming that its network was secure. 

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Reuters
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30 Mar 2018

Boeing production plant hit with WannaCry ransomware attack

A Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina was hit by the WannaCry ransomwear cyberattack on Wednesday. Mike VanderWel, the chief engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane production engineering, sent out a company-wide memo calling for “all hands on deck.”

“It is metastasizing rapidly out of North Charleston and I just heard 777 may have gone down,” reads VanderWel’s memo. The company worries the virus may hit equipment used in functional airplane tests, which could lead to it spreading to airplane software. WannaCry, which the Trump administration blames on the cyberterrorism unit of North Korea as of December 2017, attacked mainly via a critical Windows vulnerability.

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16 Mar 2018

Cybercriminals spotted hiding cryptocurrency mining malware in forked projects on GitHub

Cybercriminals have found another way to spread their malware: uploading cryptocurrency mining code to GitHub, according to security researchers at security company Avast.

Developers 'fork' projects on GitHub, which means making a copy of someone else's project in order to build on it. In this case, the cybercriminals fork random projects and then hide malicious executables in the directory structure of these new projects, the researchers said. Users don't need to download the malicious executables directly from GitHub. Instead, the malware is spread via a phishing ad campaign.

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ZDNet
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15 Mar 2018

Slingshot APT: Riding on a hardware Trojan horse

One of the most interesting revelations from researchers at Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (SAS) this year was a report on a highly sophisticated cyberespionage campaign called Slingshot.

The first part to understand is the means of infection. What makes this initial attack vector unique is that, according to research, many victims were attacked through compromised routers made by MikroTik. Routers download and run various DLL files in the normal course of business. Attackers found a way to compromise the devices by adding a malicious DLL to an otherwise legitimate package of other DLLs. 

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Kaspersky Daily
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14 Mar 2018

Hacked retail robots can demand bitcoin

It’s the end of your phone’s annual life cycle and you have decided to go in for an upgrade. You make your way into a local Sprint store where you are warmly greeted by Pepper, a four-foot-tall, humanoid service robot.

Pepper welcomes you and asks how it can be of assistance. Suddenly, something goes terribly wrong. Before you can avert your gaze, hardcore porn starts streaming from Pepper’s chest tablet. You plea to make the moaning stop but instead Pepper simply looks at you and angrily demands large sums of Bitcoin. You throw your hands up in defeat, unsure what to do. 

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Motherboard
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1 Mar 2018

Chip cards lead to 70% drop in counterfeit fraud: Visa

The adoption of chip-and-PIN card technology by an increasing number of merchants in the United States has led to a significant drop in cases of counterfeit card fraud, according to Visa.

The financial industry has been pushing for the adoption of EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) card technology in the United States since 2011, and efforts were increased following the disclosure of the massive data breach suffered by Target in 2013. However, according to Visa, by September 2015, only roughly 392,000 merchant locations had been accepting chip cards, and the number of Visa debit and credit cards using this technology was only at 159 million. 

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SecurityWeek
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1 Mar 2018

Email inboxes still the weakest link in security perimeters

Over one-third of all security incidents start with phishing emails or malicious attachments sent to company employees, according to F-Secure.

The single most common source of breaches analyzed in the report was attackers exploiting vulnerabilities in an organization’s Internet facing services, which accounted for about 21 percent of security incidents investigated by F-Secure’s incident responders. Phishing and emails with malicious attachments together accounted for about 34 percent of breaches, which F-Secure Principal Security Consultant Tom Van de Wiele says make attacks arriving via email a much bigger pain point for organizations.

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The Help Net Security
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21 Feb 2018

Hackers enlisted Tesla's public cloud to mine cryptocurrency

Cryptojacking only really coalesced as a class of attack about six months ago, but already the approach has evolved and matured into a ubiquitous threat. Hacks that co-opt computing power for illicit cryptocurrency mining now target a diverse array of victims, from individual consumers to massive institutions—even industrial control systems.

But the latest victim isn't some faceless internet denizen or a Starbucks in Buenos Aires. It's Tesla. Researchers published findings on Tuesday that some of Tesla's Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure was running mining malware in a far-reaching and well-hidden cryptojacking campaign. 

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Wired
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