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Avalanche online crime network taken down in Europol operation
The Avalanche online crime network, used to target online bank customers with phishing and spam emails, has been dismantled after a four-year investigation by EU law enforcement agency Europol. Avalanche was one of the world’s biggest networks of hijacked computers. More than a million emails were sent per week with malicious files or links. When [...]
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Fake credit card factory shut down by Police in London
Police have shut down a fake credit card factory used to supply bank cards to criminals across Europe. Gabriel Yew, 45, was one of three men to be sent down for their part in the crime network, while another two were spared jail. Scotland Yard’s fraud team Falcon had been tipped off that the false [...]
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Was Tesco Bank hacked – or was the money stolen?
In a very good blog, originally posted on Withoutfire.com, John Elliott, a payments / privacy / cyber security / risk specialist has some very interesting views and theories on the Tesco... more
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Was Tesco Bank hacked – or was the money stolen?
In a very good blog, originally posted on Withoutfire.com, John Elliott, a payments / privacy / cyber security / risk specialist has some very interesting views and theories on the Tesco Bank Hack or Heist. I’ve read some pretty amazing articles and blogs in the last week, Elliott writes, that show quite a misunderstanding about how criminals [...]
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Fighting fraud: people’s attitudes towards the use of payments data
We live in a world with a transactional data landscape. Every minute of every day, simply by going about our normal day-to-day activities, we are generating information through the payments... more
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