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We regularily learn of cases where criminals have gained access credit card numbers via keyloggers , skimmers or online hacks . Once they have card numbers, they basically have three ways to turn the credit card numbers into cash: Sell them Make fraudulent purchases on them Create real-world cards out of them To create real-world cards, you need blank cards to start with

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Blank Plastic

Buying and selling stock online is big business. It also carries it’s own risks. And we don’t mean the risk of doing bad investments; we mean loosing access to your trading account because your computer got infected by a keylogger.

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Online stock trading is risky

Over the years, we have multiple times posted examples of what kind of booby-trapped document files have been used in targeted (espionage) attacks. For example: Targeted examples New set of bait files H1N1 Themed Targeted Attack Intelligence Sector Hit by a Targeted Attack Targeted Malware Attacks Against Pro-Tibet Groups On-going Targeted Attacks Against US Military Contractors However, we’ve rarely shown how these documents were delivered to the targeted , i.e. what the emails looked like .

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What do the Targeted Attack emails look like?

An Estonian virus writer has been sentenced to jail in Harju, Estonia. The author of the Allaple virus family, 44-year old Mr

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Allaple Virus Author Sentenced

F-Secure has an additional blog that launched today. It’s called Safe and Savvy .

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Be Savvy, Get Six Months of Internet Security

I wasn’t sure I’d see this Browser Choice update : I set my computer’s Regional Options for the United States even though it’s physically located in Finland (I’m an American after all). Regional settings might trump my IP address, I thought… but it seems not. I manually ran Microsoft Update and was provided access to KB976002

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Select Your Web Browser(s)

ATM skimmers are installed like this: Video source: Spiegel.de & German Federal Criminal Office (Bundeskriminalamt) On 10/03/10 At 12:06 PM

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How are ATM skimmers installed?

Microsoft schedules its security updates on the second Tuesday of the month. Adobe recently began following this schedule as well, and while there are no Adobe updates today, there was an out-of-cycle security update two weeks ago.

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PDF Based Targeted Attacks are Increasing

As ” JiLsi ” — one of the online criminals from Darkmarket — was sentenced last week to almost five years in prison, we have received some media queries on the case. In particular, one journalist wanted to know what JiLsi (aka Renu Subramaniam), Matrix001 (aka Markus Kellerer) and Cha0 (aka Çağatay Evyapan) looked like when they were posting to the Darkmarket forum.

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Darkmarket Avatars

Somebody is trying to pose as us.

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Desperate phishing attempt