It seems like ATM hacking is still the way to go for those into a bit of hardware hacking. One of the most notorious and well known ATM hackers was recently arrest in Turkey and a list of his tips discovered online where he also sold the ATM skimming equipment.
Well his tips can’t be THAT [...]
We reported on this case back in September 2007, the largest US data breach in history so far (45 million customer records!).
It seems like finally the people behind it have been busted, 11 people have been charged by US authorities.
The US authorities have charged 11 people in connection with the theft of credit-card details in [...]
Looks like India has them moving into the hacking scene young, it’ll happen anywhere with decent network infrastructure and disparate levels of economy. Look at Eastern Europe and China as other examples, India though due to it’s outsourcing culture and plentiful legitimate jobs in the IT industry doesn’t seem to suffer so many problems with [...]
Vishing, now there’s a new term for you. Basically its Phishing - but utilising VoIP call services, which makes it very easy to spoof the Caller ID.
Even though Caller ID Spoofing was Made Illegal in the USA - people will still continue to do it, remember the FCC said it’s still easy to spoof caller [...]
Another big heist in the US netting a whole lot of juicy information on credit and debit cards, over half a million USD lost in this case alone. There’s a whole lot of fraud going on..
Not bad for fiddling with the cash register system of a restaurant chain. It just shows, anyone dealing with finanical [...]
I saw some interesting information recently on a mailing list.
We took one sample of one carding/phishing forum that our Global Surveillance Center was monitoring and sampled the set into a graph that lists the top 10 banks and the losses over the last month. As you can see, it’s obvious who the top credit card [...]
Sounds complicated, it’s almost a tongue-twister.
It turns out the carders (people using stolen credit card details fraudulently) have worked out how to get money out of the spammers (spamming being massive nowdays)
Fraudsters who deal in stolen credit card data have devised a means to extract money from sponsors of junk mail campaigns.
Carders have signed up [...]
