As reported by Ars Technica, Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company. In the settlement, Ticketmaster admitted that an employee who used to work for a rival company emailed the login credentials for multiple accounts the rival used to manage presale ticket sales. At a San Francisco meeting attended by at least 14 employees of Ticketmaster or its parent company Live Nation, the employee used one set of credentials to log in to an account to demonstrate how it worked.
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Cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia disclosed the discovery of a breach of Juspay revealing the data of over 100 million credit and debit card users, including their full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and the first and last four digits of their cards. E-merchants such as Amazon use its payments services.
A new phishing campaign has been identified that targets PayPal users with fraudulent text messages, according to TechRadar. The exploit attempts to steal a variety of sensitive user details, in addition to their PayPal credentials. Targets first receive an SMS message stating that the user’s PayPal account has been partially suspended due to suspicious activity. The user is then asked to click on a link that will enable them to verify their account. However, this link actually leads to a fake login page that allows the attacker to steal the entered login credentials. The phishing page then asks for further…
Check Point Research (CPR) report a 45% increase in cyber-attacks on healthcare organizations worldwide in the last two months, making healthcare the most targeted industry by cyber criminals. · Increase (+45%) in global cyber-attacks on healthcare sector is double the increase (+22%) in cyber-attacks on all other industry sectors · Average number of weekly attacks in the healthcare sector reached 626 per organization during November, compared with 430 in previous months · Surges in cyber-attacks on healthcare sector occurred mostly in Central Europe (+145%), followed by East Asia (+137%), Latin America (+112%), Europe (+67%) and North America (+37%) · Canada…
Recently, an aide to President-elect Joe Biden indicated that the cyber attacks waged against SolarWinds will be a top priority for the incoming administration. In light of this high-profile prioritization from the next President of the United States, cybersecurity expert commented below.
The KELA report Darknet Threat Actors Are Not Playing Games with the Gaming Industry revealed that KELA researchers found nearly 1 million compromised accounts pertaining to gaming clients and employees, with 50% of them offered for sale during 2020. KELA also detected more than 500,000 leaked credentials pertaining to employees of the leading companies in the gaming sector.
It was reported recently that a PayPal text message phishing campaign is underway that attempts to steal your account credentials and other sensitive information that can be used for identity theft.
As 2021 arrives, technology will stay a major player across the world. The coronavirus pandemic has enforced the need for technology of all kinds, but with that reliance comes a need to focus on cybersecurity protocols to protect privacy and data. These five protocols are essential for professionals of any background to take into consideration. 1. GDPR The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides an overview of how cybersecurity professionals should go about foundational steps and protocols in the European Union (EU). However, any United States-based company that works with firms in the EU will need to know this regulation.…
A new Magecart card skimmer, discovered by Dutch cybersecurity company Sansec, is collecting customers payment info on dozens of stores hosted by Shopify, BigCommerce, Zencart, and Woocommerce. The skimmer works by showing a fake payment form and records customers keystrokes before they enter the actual checkout page.
An increasing number of businesses are beginning to accept transactions that use digital currencies. Until recently, American Express was considered to be the world’s third largest payment system behind Visa and Mastercard, but it has now been overtaken by crypto. This has led to cryptocurrency exchanges being recognised as a valuable service in place of traditional banks. Because crypto exchanges are still in their infancy, they’re not without flaws. Many lack the necessary security precautions that a traditional bank simply wouldn’t operate without. Various incidents involving cryptocurrency exchanges have highlighted this, most notably the recent attack on KuCoin, a Singapore-based…