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

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?

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

Somebody is trying to pose as us.

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Desperate phishing attempt

Just when we thought SEO using Flash was as interesting as SEO poisoning can get, it seems it’s getting even sneakier… Imagine a PDF file posted by someone evil online. Of course, Google being Google, the file is recognized as a PDF

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The Morphing PDF

Another day, another news, and well… another SEO Poisoning stint. Using PDF files in SEO poisoning is a bit recent, but not exactly fresh news.

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SEO Poisoning Sites Use Flash for Redirection

Remember Microsoft’s action against 277 Waledac domains last week? Well, that’s one way of going after a botnet… Another way of shutting down a botnet

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Another Bot Bites the Dust?

Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA is the site of this week’s RSA Conference 2010 .

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RSA Conference 2010

Microsoft took a stab at Waledac bots last April when they added detection to their Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). The MSRT is part of their monthly Microsoft Updates package

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R.I.P. Waledac?