Duncan McLeod reports: South Africa’s banks have suffered tens of millions of rand in losses due to a major breach of customer card data by criminal syndicates that infected electronic point-of-sale (POS) devices using a variant of malicious software called Dexter. It’s not known exactly how many POS devices were infected by the malware, but…
Category: Malware
Datapak notifies customers that malware may have been capturing their credit card information since March (Update4)
Datapak Services Corporation, an order fulfillment and payment processor based in Swanee, Georgia, recently learned that malware placed on their system on March 5 may have compromised the credit card information of customers of “several” e-commerce web sites. In a letter dated October 3, they note that customers’ names, addresses, and card numbers with expiration…
Latvia: Deniss Calovskis, Wanted by U.S. for Role in Gozi Virus, Freed After Human Rights Court Blocks U.S. Extradition
Juris Kaza reports: Deniss Calovskis, the alleged Latvian hacker whose extradition to the U.S. was blocked by the European Court of Human Rights earlier this year, has been released from a jail in the Latvian capital of Riga. Mr. Calovskis, 28, was named in a U.S. indictment as an accomplice to a Russian citizen already in custody…
Unique Vintage notifies customers of long-running hack
We are writing to you because of an incident at Unique Vintage. On September 14, 2013 we discovered a data security incident that involved some of your personal information. Unique Vintage is Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (“PCI”) compliant and implements the latest measures reasonably possible to protect its customers’ sensitive information. However, the very sophisticated data breach…
OK, NSA, ‘fess up: did you hack Belgacom?
Has the NSA been hacking into Belgian telco Belgacom since 2011 – or has some other government? Who knows? Read deStandaard, Threatpost, and the Washington Post.
OutdoorNetwork notifying customers that malware may have snagged their credit card info (update2)
Outdoor Network LLC in Hollywood, Florida is notifying customers who engaged in credit card transactions between December 2012 and July 2013 that their personal information may have been exfiltrated to unauthorized third parties. In a letter dated September 11, Martin Polo, the firm’s CEO, writes that they recently learned of a breach affecting their boats.net and partzilla.com…