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Newegg gets hit by the British Airways attackers, a Twitter bug sent direct messages to developers, and the three men behind Mirai don’t receive jail time. All that coming up now on ThreatWire.

Links:

Newegg:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/newegg-hit-by-credit-card-stealing-code-injected-into-shopping-code/

https://www.cnet.com/news/newegg-data-breach-exposed-customer-credit-card-info-says-report/

https://twitter.com/Newegg/status/1042466284577779712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://kb.newegg.com/knowledge-base/2018-data-security-update-faq/?cm_mmc=snc-twitter-_-kb-faq-_-na-_-na

https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-newegg/

https://www.volexity.com/blog/2018/09/19/magecart-strikes-again-newegg/

Twitter:

https://help.twitter.com/en/account-activity-api

https://developer.twitter.com/en/products/accounts-and-users/account-activity-api.html

https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2018/details-for-developers-on-Account-Activity-API-bug.html

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-may-have-sent-your-private-dms-to-the-wrong-people-but-probably-not/

https://threatpost.com/twitter-flaw-exposed-direct-messages-to-external-developers/137608/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/21/twitter-bug-sent-user-direct-messages-to-developers-for-over-a-year/

Mirai:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/hackers-cooperation-fbi-leads-substantial-assistance-other-complex-cybercrime

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/mirai-botnet-authors-avoid-jail-time/

https://www.cnet.com/news/hackers-behind-mirai-botnet-could-be-sentenced-to-working-for-the-fbi/

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/mirai-botnet-fbi-cybercrime.html

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