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Silent Credit Card Thief Uncovered

A sophisticated credit card skimming campaign dubbed 'RolandSkimmer' has been discovered, targeting users in Bulgaria. The attack utilizes malicious browser extensions across Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, initiated through a deceptive LNK file. The malware employs obfuscated scripts to establish persistent access, harvesting and exfiltrating sensitive financial data. The attack workflow involves system reconnaissance, downloading additional malicious files, and injecting scripts into web pages. The threat actor uses unique identifiers to track victims and employs sophisticated techniques to evade detection. The campaign demonstrates the evolving nature of web-based credit card skimming threats, highlighting the need for enhanced security measures against LNK-based attacks and unverified browser extensions.

Pulse ID: 67efc6e92fbd533808f09435
Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/67efc
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2025-04-04 11:47:53

Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

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I spent decades perfecting my linux dotfiles and emacs config - but all that changed in just five minutes.

I peeked into my classmate's laptop to copy the homework but I was awestruck by how awesome windows 11 is.

Nixos has rollbacks and emacs but Windows has recall and copilot inside notepad that has done my homework.

I had trouble choosing a browser on Linux after firefox shit its bed. But windows gave me a free microsoft account and bing assured me that Edge is the best.

Life's so good now with microsoft watching my back 😄. Take that linux shills!

#linux #emacs #windows #microsoft #firefox #edge #copilot

My (small: around 75 systems) #MDM setup works now. It has *only* 1 flaw: it's #Miscrosoft #InTune 🤮

I could add my #ubuntu laptops to it, but:
1. I hate the idea of managing systems via such a closed system
2. I would be forced to install #edge and an InTune app, on Ubuntu!

Are there alternatives to manage my #linux computers centrally via an #opensource solution? Updates, apps and websites restrictions, ...

After ditching browser after browser due to privacy, AI, or whatever nonsense, I find myself using Konqueror.

It's kind of a breath of fresh air. Google is hostile towards it and I miss having a Bitwarden plugin but I think I'll survive.

🎉 Introducing Cosmonic Control: WebAssembly for enterprise. Built on Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) wasmcloud, Cosmonic Control is a powerful control plane for managing distributed apps across any #cloud, #Kubernetes, #edge, or on premise and self-hosted deployments! More details on the blog, and come see us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon!

cosmonic.com/blog/engineering/

I've used #Firefox my main #webbrowser for a long time and there appears to be a lot of negative talk about it lately (from different angles even) but honestly

I don't really see any good cross platform alternatives (I use Firefox on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and Windows).

#Chrome and #Edge are off the table, obviously. #Safari is Apple only. I don't even know an alternative, Firefox was supposed to be the alternative.

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@voxel personally, I despise @brave and I think it, @Vivaldi or any other #Chromium-#Fork|s are just bad to the point that I recommend using @torproject / #TorBrowser, @dillo / #dillo and #LynxBrowser over those.

  • Espechally since the #Tor Project actually care about #privacy!

I consider #Edge to be #Givware just like #MicrosoftOutlook which leaks all login details to #Microsoft!

docs.monocles.eumonocles mail - monocles Documentation

I've just noticed my @Vivaldi browser saying that uBlock Origin and ScriptSafe are going to stop working in the near future, which is disappointing as I thought they were going to keep support for them.

So my question is... what #browser can I use now? OR, what plugins do I need to replace the soon-to-be-dead ones?

I've got Safari for a backup, but that's got pretty terrible #plugin support so I've never really used it as a primary browser.

#Firefox seems to be enshittifying as fast as they can, #Chrome and #Edge are both crap from a privacy point of view. All the other #Chromium browsers are based on Chrome and thus also lose the #ManifestV2 support.

I don't have millions of plugins I need, but blocking scripts seems a fairly essential feature in the web of 2025 and I don't know what other options there are at the moment...

Oh, and if the Safari mention earlier didn't give it away, I'm on an Apple Silicon Mac (and have no intention of moving to Linux ;) )