By Stas Alforov and Christopher Thomas Key Findings The Joker’s Stash marketplace, one of the largest and most notorious dark web marketplaces for buying stolen payment card data, began uploading records from its latest major breach on January 27. The breach was titled “BIGBADABOOM-III.” Gemini determined that the point of compromise for BIGBADABOOM-III is Wawa, […]
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By Stas Alforov and Christopher Thomas Key Findings As cybercrime levels around the world continue to rise, Australia has seen an increasing number of incidents. However, official statistics show that the rate of increase is slowing in Australia, offering an optimistic outlook for the nation’s countermeasures. From 2018 to 2019, Gemini observed Australian payment card […]
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By Stas Alforov and Christopher Thomas Key Findings In December 2018, Gemini Advisory covered a breach of Click2Gov, a self-service bill-pay portal for utilities, community development, and parking tickets, which compromised over 300,000 payment card records from dozens of cities across the United States and Canada between 2017 and late 2018. Gemini has now observed […]
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By Stas Alforov and Christopher Thomas Key Findings While the entire Asia Pacific (APAC) region is experiencing a noticeable uptick in attacks against brick-and-mortar and e-commerce businesses, South Korea has emerged as the largest victim of Card Present (CP) data theft by a wide margin. Gemini Advisory observed a spike in South Korean-issued CP records […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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