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April 26, 2016

All About Fraud: How Crooks Get the CVV

This post was originally published on this siteA longtime reader recently asked: “How do online fraudsters get the 3-digit card verification value (CVV or CVV2) code printed on the back of customer cards if merchants are forbidden from storing this information? The answer: If not via phishing, probably by installing a Web-based keylogger at an online merchant so that all data that customers submit to the site is copied and sent to the attacker’s server. Kenneth Labelle, a regional director at insurer Burns-Wilcox.com, wrote: “So, I am trying to figure out how card not present transactions are possible after a […]
April 30, 2019

Data: E-Retail Hacks More Lucrative Than Ever

This post was originally published on this siteFor many years and until quite recently, credit card data stolen from online merchants has been worth far less in the cybercrime underground than cards pilfered from hacked brick-and-mortar stores. But new data suggests that over the past year, the economics of supply-and-demand have helped to double the average price fetched by card-not-present data, meaning cybercrooks now have far more incentive than ever to target e-commerce stores. Traditionally, the average price for card data nabbed from online retailers — referred to in the underground as “CVVs” — has ranged somewhere between $2 and […]