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Breach at Sabre Corp.’s Hospitality Unit

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 18:41:42 +0000

Breaches involving major players in the hospitality industry continue to pile up. Today, travel industry giant Sabre Corp. disclosed what could be a significant breach of payment and customer data tied to bookings processed through a reservations system that serves more than 32,000 hotels and other lodging establishments. In a quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, Southlake, Texas-based Sabre said it was “investigating an incident of unauthorized access to payment information contained in a subset of hotel reservations processed through our Hospitality Solutions SynXis Central Reservations system.”

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Blind Trust in Email Could Cost You Your Home

April 27, 2017 admin Bank of America, Charisse Castagnoli, Delta Community Credit Union, Dorothy Little, FBI, Jon Little, Other, TD Bank

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:36:44 +0000

The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if — at settlement — your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here’s the story about a phishing email that cost a couple their home and left them scrambling for months to recover hundreds of thousands in cash that went missing. It was late November 2016, and Jon and Dorthy Little were all set to close on a $200,000 home in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Just prior to the closing date on Dec. 2 their realtor sent an email to the Little’s and to the law firm handling the closing, asking the settlement firm for instructions on wiring the money to an escrow account.

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UK Man Gets Two Years in Jail for Running ‘Titanium Stresser’ Attack-for-Hire Service

April 25, 2017 admin booter service, Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, ERSOU, Hackforums, Lizard Squad, Martin Peters, Mirai, Other, Rutgers University, stresser service, stressor, Titanium Stresser, U.K. Computer Misuse Act

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:06:34 +0000

A 20-year-old man from the United Kingdom was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to operating and selling access to “Titanium Stresser,” a simple-to-use service that let paying customers launch crippling online attacks against Web sites and individual Internet users. Adam Mudd of Herfordshire, U.K. admitted to three counts of computer misuse connected with his creating and operating the attack service, also known as a “stresser” or “booter” tool. Services like Titanium Stresser coordinate so-called “distributed denial-of-service” or DDoS attacks that hurl huge barrages of junk data at a site in a bid to make it crash or become otherwise unreachable to legitimate visitors.

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The Backstory Behind Carder Kingpin Roman Seleznev’s Record 27 Year Prison Sentence

April 24, 2017 admin bulba, FBI, FSB, Igor Litvak, nCux, Other, Roman Seleznev, secret service, Valery Seleznev, Vladimir Putin

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:37:23 +0000

Roman Seleznev, a 32-year-old Russian cybercriminal and prolific credit card thief, was sentenced Friday to 27 years in federal prison. That is a record punishment for hacking violations in the United States and by all accounts one designed to send a message to criminal hackers everywhere. But a close review of the case suggests that Seleznev’s record sentence was severe in large part because the evidence against him was substantial and yet he declined to cooperate with prosecutors prior to his trial. The son of an influential Russian politician, Seleznev made international headlines in 2014 after he was captured while vacationing in The Maldives, a popular vacation spot for Russians and one that many Russian cybercriminals previously considered to be out of reach for western law enforcement agencies. He was whisked away to Guam briefly before being transported to Washington state to stand trial for computer hacking charges.

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How Cybercrooks Put the Beatdown on My Beats

April 21, 2017 admin Amazon hack, amazon hacked seller account, eBay, Other, Paypal, Sentry MBA, SLILPP, The Wall Street Journal, слил

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:29:36 +0000

Last month Yours Truly got snookered by a too-good-to-be-true online scam in which some dirtball hijacked an Amazon merchant’s account and used it to pimp steeply discounted electronics that he never intended to sell. Amazon refunded my money, and the legitimate seller never did figure out how his account was hacked. But such attacks are becoming more prevalent of late as crooks increasingly turn to online crimeware services that make it a cakewalk to cash out stolen passwords.

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Tracing Spam: Diet Pills from Beltway Bandits

April 19, 2017 admin American Registry for Internet Numbers, ARIN, C3T, dan@gtacs.com, Defense Point Security, Farsight Security, GTACS, Matthew Sodano, Other, Power Storm Technologies, Ron Guilmette, tracesystems.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:56:10 +0000

Reading junk spam messages isn’t exactly my idea of a good time, but sometimes fun can be had when you take a moment to check who really sent the email. Here’s the simple story of how a recent spam email advertising celebrity “diet pills” was traced back to a Washington, D.C.-area defense contractor that builds tactical communications systems for the U.S. military and intelligence communities.

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InterContinental Hotel Chain Breach Expands

April 18, 2017 admin Crowne Plaza breach, Holiday Inn breach, Holiday Inn Express breach, IHG breach, InterContinental Hotels Group, Other, secure payment solution, sms

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:35:39 +0000

In December 2016, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that fraud experts at various banks were seeing a pattern suggesting a widespread credit card breach across a large number of the 5,000 hotels worldwide owned by InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). In February, IHG acknowledged a breach but said it appeared to involve only a dozen properties. Now, IHG has released data showing that cash registers at more than 1,000 of its properties were compromised with malicious software designed to siphon customer debit and credit card data.

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Shoney’s Hit By Apparent Credit Card Breach

April 14, 2017 admin Arby's breach, Other, Shoney's breach, Wendy's breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:01:04 +0000

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for another episode of “Which Restaurant Chain Got Hacked?” Multiple sources in the financial industry say they’ve traced a pattern of fraud on customer cards indicating that the latest victim may be Shoney’s, a 70-year-old restaurant chain that operates primarily in the southern United States.