Latest Visa news

US imposes visa bans on 13 spyware makers and their families

The Department of State has started imposing visa restrictions on mercenary spyware makers and peddlers, prohibiting their entry into the United States, as announced earlier in February.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 23, 2024
- 11:38 AM
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Visa warns of new JSOutProx malware variant targeting financial orgs

Visa is warning about a spike in detections for a new version of the JsOutProx malware targeting financial institutions and their customers.
- Bill Toulas
- April 04, 2024
- 03:29 PM
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New 'BidenCash' site sells your stolen credit card for just 15 cents

A recently launched carding site called 'BidenCash' is trying to get notoriety by leaking credit card details along with information about their owners.
- Bill Toulas
- June 20, 2022
- 11:02 AM
- 0
Apple Pay with VISA lets hackers force payments on locked iPhones

Academic researchers have found a way to make fraudulent payments using Apple Pay from a locked iPhone with a Visa card in the digital wallet set as a transit card.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 29, 2021
- 08:37 PM
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VISA: Hackers increasingly using web shells to steal credit cards

Global payments processor VISA warns that threat actors are increasingly deploying web shells on compromised servers to exfiltrate credit card information stolen from online store customers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 07, 2021
- 05:18 PM
- 0
Visa warns of new Baka credit card JavaScript skimmer

Visa issued a warning regarding a new JavaScript e-commerce skimmer known as Baka that will remove itself from memory after exfiltrating stolen data and analysis.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 05, 2020
- 10:05 AM
- 0
Visa urges merchants to migrate e-commerce sites to Magento 2.x

Payments processor Visa is urging merchants to migrate their online stores to Magento 2.x before the Magento 1.x e-commerce platform reaches end-of-life (EoL) in June 2020 to avoid exposing their stores to Magecart attacks and to remain PCI compliant.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 09, 2020
- 11:53 AM
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Credit Card Data Exposed Online Is Tested Within 2 Hours

Be it fake or real, payment card data does not survive untouched for long on the web, a recent experiment showed. The bad guys are testing everything they find on the internet, just to make sure they don't miss an opportunity to cash in.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 17, 2019
- 03:33 AM
- 0
VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems

The point-of-sale (POS) systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants are under an increased and ongoing threat of being targeted by an attack coordinated by cybercrime groups according to a security alert published by VISA.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 12, 2019
- 07:45 PM
- 0
Visa Adds New Threat Detection to Prevent Payment Fraud

Visa announced the addition of new fraud threat detection and blocking tech designed to boost transaction security and, implicitly, the integrity of its payments ecosystem.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 20, 2019
- 05:11 PM
- 0
Phishing Scam Says You Won $2.5M For Using Google's Services

Computer security is such a serious business with the risk of financial harm, data loss, and hardware damage that it can be a nice change of pace to run into a scam that brings a chuckle. Such is the case with a phishing scam that pretends to be an email informing you that Google has awarded you $2.5 million.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 25, 2019
- 06:26 PM
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Visa Card Payment Systems Go Down Across Europe

The Visa card payment system is currently down across Europe. Users across the continent have reported problems during the day when attempting to make payments using their Visa cards.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- June 01, 2018
- 01:42 PM
- 0
US Wants to Make Social Media Data Collection Mandatory for All Visa Applicants

The United States Department of State wants to make it mandatory for all foreigners to provide social media details when applying for a visa to enter the US.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 30, 2018
- 08:01 AM
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Visa: EMV Cards Cut Down Counterfeit Card Fraud in the US by 70%

Visa said last week that two years after US retailers started deploying terminals that could read chip-based credit and debit cards, reports of counterfeit card fraud have dropped by 70%.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- February 26, 2018
- 08:07 AM
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