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Man Allegedly Bilks E-Trade, Schwab of $50K by Collecting Lots of Free 'Micro-Deposits'

2008-05-27 22:20:00 by Threat LEvel in Wired Security
 
In a penny-wise computer caper, a California man allegedly wrote a computer program that opened 58,000 online brokerage accounts and linked them to his bank accounts. The brokerage companies automatically send small deposits to newly-linked accounts to verify they're working, and it all adds up
 
Tags: bank accounts, accounts, online brokerage accounts, penny-wise computer caper, brokerage companies, computer program, deposits, allegedly, california
 
 
 
 
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Clever Micro-Deposit Scam

2008-06-05 13:25:45 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...deposits" of between two cents to one dollar to the account, and ask the customer to verify that they've received it Largent allegedly used an automated script to open 58,000 online brokerage accounts, linking each of them to a handful of online bank accounts, and accumulating thousands of dollars in micro-deposits
 
Tags: account, bank account, brokerage account, online brokerage accounts, online bank accounts, largent allegedly, allegedly, customer links, customer
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...deposits at risk, he stressed. "We reduced by half the dollar amount that could be withdrawn and limited [access] to Texas. We cut out anything outside Texas," Carter said Evan] Seems like a logical response, but what a hassle for customers. As of Monday morning, the warning below is still posted on OmniAmerican's home page The...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...deposits the same piece of malware that infected some of Apple's video iPods during manufacturing in October 2006. It gathers IP addresses and port numbers from infected PCs and ships them out, according to Symantec. One destination is registered to a service in China that allows people to conceal their own IP addresses Then there is a...
 
Tags: frames, picture frames, trojan, generic trojan, digital photo frames, trojan horse, virus apparently, malware, windows
 
 
 
 
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ID Theft Incidents

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2008-03-29 21:29:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...deposits Moral of the story: The highest APR on your deposit may not be the only thing to look for when shopping for a bank
 
Tags: major financial institutions, chris hoofnagle, list, incidents, thefts, leader, story, time, surprise
 
 
 
 
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76Service - Cybercrime as a Service Going Mainstream

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2008-08-13 08:08:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...deposits that the Gozi-infected machines they subscribed to sent to the servers, like the 3.3 GB one Jackson had found. A project was like an investment portfolio. Individual Gozi-infected machines were like stocks and subscribers bought a group of them, betting they could gain enough personal information from their portfolio of infected...
 
Tags: 76service, service, malware, malware kit, cybercrime, malware botnet, botnet, mysterious 76service server, web service
 
 
 
 
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Analyst warns of phishing scams after bank collapse

2008-11-05 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Customers trying to claim deposits from a collapsed Icelandic bank could be at a higher risk of phishing scams over the next few weeks
 
Tags: claim deposits, scams, icelandic bank, customers, weeks, risk
 
 
 
 
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Analysts warn of phishing scams following bank collapse

2008-11-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472bd4 in Network World on Security
 
Customers trying to claim deposits from a collapsed Icelandic bank could be at a higher risk over the next few weeks of falling victim to phishing scams, according to security analysts
 
Tags: icelandic bank, claim deposits, security analysts, scams, customers, risk, weeks, victim
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-12-08 [del.icio.us]

2008-12-09 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...deposits in the amount of $130 for PCI compliance. He called up his gateway and found out it was an automatic charge for an online form he had to fill out. He filled out the form and it turned out he failed compliance. Why? Because when asked do you have a bonded company take your backup tapes off-site he said No because it did not apply to...
 
Tags: pci compliance, ignore pci compliance, pci, pci rabbit hole, fail pci compliance, compliance, assess pcidss compliance, pci blog, security
 
 
 
 
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Fun Reading on Security and Compliance #10

2008-12-09 10:13:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -