Home Depot Agrees $19.5 Million To Settle 2014 Breach

Home Depot agreed this week to pay $19.5 million to compensate the 40 million cardholders it said were impacted by a massive 2014 data breach. As part of a proposed settlement by Home Depot, it admits no wrongdoing or liability in the breach, according to court filings with the US District Court...

Payment Card Data Accessed in Parking Provider Data Breach

SP+, a parking management services provider, late last week announced that 17 of its facilities in the United States had been breached and hackers may have made off with an unspecified number of payment card numbers. In a statement, the company said it was notified on Nov. 3 by a payment processo...

Backoff Malware Identified as Culprit in Dairy Queen Breach

Backoff apparently has a sweet tooth. International Dairy Queen on Thursday confirmed that 395 of its Dairy Queen locations nationwide were breached by hackers using the dangerous point-of-sale malware. One Orange Julius location was also involved in the breach. The hackers were able to access...

Backoff Sinkhole Reveals Sorry Point-of-Sale Security

Kaspersky Lab researchers say that a recent analysis of two Backoff malware command and control servers paints “a very bleak picture of the state of point-of-sale security.” Kaspersky Lab sinkholed two of the malware’s command and control servers. In just two days, nearly 100 infected systems,...

Backoff Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of Backoff malware compromising a significant number of major enterprise networks as well as small and medium businesses. US-CERT encourages administrators and operators of Point-of-Sale systems to review the Backoff malware alert to help determine if your network may be affected...

New Backoff PoS Malware Identified in Several Attacks

A new breed of point-of-sale malware has been found in several recent attacks, and experts say that the tool, known as Backoff, has extensive data stealing and exfiltration capabilities, including keylogging, memory scraping and injection into running processes. The Backoff malware doesn’t...