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AMCA Breach May Be Largest Medical Breach in 2019
By Stas Alforov and Christopher Thomas Key Findings On February 28, 2019, Gemini Advisory identified a large number of compromised payment cards in the dark web containing personally identifiable information (PII), such as dates of birth (DOBs), Social Security numbers (SSNs), and physical addresses. A thorough analysis indicated that the information was likely stolen […]
India: Rising Cybercrime Frontier
By Stas Alforov and Christopher Thomas Key Findings India, with the world’s second largest population and rising internet penetration, presents a significant attack surface to cybercriminal threat actors. A combination of lucrative targets and insufficient defense measures makes many Indian institutions attractive to hackers. Over 3.2 million Indian payment card records have been compromised and […]
Ongoing Supply of Compromised Pakistani Payment Cards Suggests Meezan Bank Breach
By Stas Alforov and Christopher Thomas Key Findings In recent months, several security organizations have reported on massive payment card fraud targeting Pakistani financial institutions. Shortly after the initial breach was detected in October 2018, several banks took steps to mitigate damages, reportedly including issuing alerts to customers and blocking online or international use of […]
Japanese Payment Card Fraud Contrasts with Regional Patterns
By Stas Alforov Key Findings Based on the proprietary Gemini Advisory telemetry data collected from various dark web sources over several years, we have determined that in 2018, nearly 1.4 million cards were compromised in the East Asia region, nearly a 100% increase from 2017. Despite the overarching trend of increased fraud in East Asia, […]
Dozens of Municipalities Exposed in Click2Gov Software Compromise
We noticed an out-of-pattern concentration of victims located in small-to-medium US cities. Further analysis of the card data linked to these locations revealed that records likely been stolen from local municipal services that license Click2Gov software
Card Fraud on the Rise, Despite National EMV Adoption
By Stas Alforov Background In 2015, the US financial industry began a massive migration to the EMV standard in response to overwhelming levels of payment card fraud.The inherent security of EMV technology in chip-enabled cards provides end-to-end encryption during card-present transactions, and effectively prevents payment card counterfeiting. EMV rollout was poised to disturb the market […]