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,...

Secret Service Backoff point of sale malware advisory

Point-of-sale malware is a problem that apparently isn’t going away any time soon. No doubt spurred on by the massive data loss absorbed in the Target data breach and most recently Supervalu grocery chains, and UPS, which disclosed last week that 51 of its stores were victimized by credit card...

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...

[ike-scan] Discover & Fingerprint IKE Hosts (IPsec VPN Servers)

ike-scan discovers IKE hosts and can also fingerprint them using the retransmission backoff pattern. ike-scan can perform the following functions: Discovery Determine which hosts in a given IP range are running IKE. This is done by displaying those hosts which respond to the IKE requests sent by...

Fedora 9 : bitlbee-1.2.2-1.fc9 (2008-7274)

Upstream released Bitlbee 1.2.2 with the following changes to the former release: - Security bugfix: It was possible to hijack accounts without gaining access to the old account, it's simply an overwrite - Some more stability improvements. - Fixed bug where people with non-lowercase nicks couldn'...