U.S. Secret Service – Computer Security Articles

Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

June 29, 2023 admin arkady bukh, dmitry volkov, dropbox, facct, fight against cybercrime technologies, formspring, Group-IB, ilya sachkov, lamarez, LinkedIn, Ne'er-Do-Well News, oleg tolstikh, oleksandr vitalyevich ieremenko, U.S. Secret Service, u.s. securities & exchange commission, yevgeniy nikulin, zl0m

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:08 +0000

Nikita Kislitsin, formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

May 9, 2023 admin 79608229389, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, denis gennadievich kulkov, Intel 471, Joker's stash, k022yb190, kreenjo, mazafaka, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nordex, nordexin, nordia@yandex.ru, polkas@bk.ru, try2check, u.s. department of justice, u.s. department of state, U.S. Secret Service, Unicc, vault market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 05 May 2023 01:50:08 +0000

The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. U.S. authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov’s card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items.

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Encoding Stolen Credit Card Data on Barcodes

February 18, 2020 admin A Little Sunshine, The Coming Storm, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:00:29 +0000

Crooks are constantly dreaming up new ways to use and conceal stolen credit card data. According to the U.S. Secret Service, the latest scheme involves stolen card information embedded in barcodes affixed to phony money network rewards cards. The scammers then pay for merchandise by instructing a cashier to scan the barcode and enter the expiration date and card security code.

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

September 9, 2019 admin Dana Deasy, data breaches, Hold Security, Julius Patterson, Miracle Systems LLC, National Institutes of Health, Perceptics, Sandesh Sharda, trickbot, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:47:56 +0000

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The contractor claims the access being auctioned off was to old test systems that do not have direct connections to its government partner networks. In mid-August, a member of a popular Russian-language cybercrime forum offered to sell access to the internal network of a U.S. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military. The seller bragged that he had access to email correspondence and credentials needed to view databases of the client agencies, and set the opening price at six bitcoins (~USD $60,000).

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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

August 14, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Aaron Schulman, All About Skimmers, Bluetana, Nishant Bhaskar, pump skimmers, U.S. Secret Service, University of California San Diego, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USENIX

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:25:32 +0000

“Bluetana,” a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapidly and accurately locate compromised fuel stations across the nation, a study released this week suggests. Data collected in the course of the investigation also reveals some fascinating details that may help explain why these pump skimmers are so lucrative and ubiquitous.

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New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer? Not Really

February 21, 2019 admin All About Skimmers, bluetooth pump skimmer, ControlScan, Mark Carl, near-field communications, NFC, Skimmer Scanner, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:43:42 +0000

Fraud investigators say they’ve uncovered a sophisticated new breed of credit card skimmers being installed at gas pumps that is capable of relaying stolen card data via mobile text message, thereby enabling fraudsters to collect it from anywhere in the world. One interesting component of this criminal innovation is a small cellphone and Bluetooth-enabled device hidden inside the contactless payment terminal of the pump, which appears to act as a Bluetooth hub that wirelessly gathers card data from multiple compromised pumps at a given filling station.

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New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer Uses SMS and Bluetooth

February 21, 2019 admin All About Skimmers, bluetooth pump skimmer, ControlScan, Mark Carl, near-field communications, NFC, Skimmer Scanner, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:43:42 +0000

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Secret Service: Theft Rings Turn to Fuze Cards

January 10, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Fuze Card, Fuze Card fraud, Latest Warnings, U.S. Secret Service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:27:54 +0000

Street thieves who specialize in cashing out stolen credit and debit cards increasingly are hedging their chances of getting caught carrying multiple counterfeit cards by relying on Fuze Cards, a smartcard technology that allows users to store dozens of cards on a single device, the U.S. Secret Service warns.

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