US Treasury says some ransomware payments may need its express approval
The US Treasury Department has published guidelines today to be used in special circumstances where a ransomware payment may break US sanctions. The guidelines apply to...
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Google deprecates Web Store Payments API, effectively nuking Chrome paid extensions
Google has announced on Monday plans to permanently shut down the Chrome Web Store “Payments API.” This is the system that Google was using...
New PIN Verification Bypass Flaw Affects Visa Contactless Payments
Even as Visa issued a warning about a new JavaScript web skimmer known as Baka, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new flaw in the...
Academics bypass PINs for Visa contactless payments
Image: Clay Banks A team of academics from Switzerland has discovered a security bug that can be abused to bypass PIN codes for Visa...
Experts identified flaw that allows criminals to steal money using Faster Payments System (FPS) – E Hacking News
Experts have identified a flaw that allows criminals to steal money from accounts of clients of banks through the Faster Payments System (FPS), which...
New WastedLocker ransomware demands payments of millions of USD
Evil Corp, one of the biggest malware operations on the internet, has slowly returned to life after several of its members were charged by...
PayPal accounts are getting abused en-masse for unauthorized payments
Hackers have found a bug in PayPal’s Google Pay integration and are now using it to buy products online and incur unauthorized charges to...
Australia to ban cash payments over AU$10,000 in the name of thwarting crime
In October, the Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019 passed the lower house. The proposed Bill, if passed, would essentially block...
Equifax direct payments to members to end class action could top $500 million
After two and a half years, Equifax’s massive data breach that impacted the personal information of about 147 million Americans has officially been settled...
Online Payments for Water Services Intercepted By Hackers – E Hacking News
The City of Waco warns residents that their online payments for water services may have been impeded by hackers who stole credit card details....