The Houston Chronicle reports that the Houston Zoo’s gift shop customers may be impacted by a vendor’s breach that also affected customers at the Detroit Zoo’s gift shop: Houston Zoo officials said on Thursday they discovered a “security breach” involving credit cards at their gift shops. A zoo spokeswoman said the breach was contained to two…
Category: Malware
Security breach at local hotels led to unauthorized charges on guests’ cards
Fox5 reports on a breach affecting hotel guests as three San Diego hotels. A copy of the hotels operator’s notification was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office today. The breach occurred in September 2014 until discovery in March 2015: The operator of three San Diego hotels announced Wednesday that a security breach led to…
Data breach reported at Detroit Zoo gift shops
There’s been a reported payment card breach involving the Detroit Zoo‘s gift shop’s third-party vendor: Service Systems Associates is reporting stolen credit card information. Malicious software, or “malware,” was found in SSA’s software, affecting purchases made at the zoo gift shops between March 23 and June 25, 2015. In addition to credit and debit card…
UK online banking users hit with Dyre malware phishing attacks
Jason Murdock reports: Online banking customers in the UK are being warned of a major phishing campaign using a notorious piece of malware designed to steal financial data. Customers of Barclays, Santander and Lloyds TSB are being targeted by the trojan malware known as Dyre. Nearly 20,000 malicious emails have been sent in the last…
Researchers find previously unknown exploits among Hacking Team’s leaked files
Lucian Constantin reports: Researchers sifting through 400GB of data recently leaked from Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells computer surveillance software to government agencies from around the world, have already found an exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in Flash Player. There are also reports of exploits for a vulnerability in Windows and one in…
Bitstamp Incident Report (February, 2015)
From the introduction of the report: This is a confidential report prepared by George Frost, General Counsel of Bitstamp Limited (“Bitstamp” or the “the Company”). This report includes information gleaned from Bitstamp’s own records (including contemporaneous emails, forensic evidence and witness interviews), and derived from ongoing investigative reporting provided by the Stroz Friedberg private investigative…