For 3 years, the same Office exploit has topped the charts of criminal usage – but there’s a new kid on the block. Source: Sophos

Digital gift card retailer Gyft has forced a password reset for some of its users. The move comes in response to the theft of usernames and passwords from a subset of Gyft customers. Mountain View, Calif. based Gyft lets customers buy and use gift cards entirely from their mobile devices. Acting on a tip from a trusted source […]

Fraud analysts in the banking industry tell KrebsOnSecurity that the latest hospitality firm to suffer a credit card breach is likely Landry’s Inc., a company that manages a nationwide stable of well-known restaurants — including Bubba Gump, Claim Jumper, McCormick & Schmick’s, and Morton’s.  Update, 2:57 p.m. ET: Landry’s has acknowledged an investigation. Their press release […]

Hzone threatened to infect the admin for a site that planned to write about its week-long spillage of a laundry list’s worth of PII. Source: Sophos

Sources at multiple financial institutions say they are tracking a pattern of fraud indicating that thieves have somehow compromised the credit card terminals at checkout lanes within multiple Safeway stores in California and Colorado. Safeway confirmed it is investigating skimming incidents at several stores. Banking sources say they’ve been trying to figure out why so many […]

The next time you need to pay for parking, it might be best to have a handful of coins ready for the meter. Source: Sophos