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...

Home Depot Data Breach Confirmed

Home Depot today finally confirmed that its payment systems have been breached, but a number of crucial questions remain unanswered by the giant home improvement retailer. In a statement released late this afternoon, Home Depot said customers using payment cards at its U.S. and Canada locations,...

Home Depot Data Breach Prompts Look at Backoff PoS Malware

Naturally, early speculation on the malware culprit behind the possible Home Depot data breach has leaned toward Backoff. The point-of-sale malware, one of many used against payment terminals, has recently been blamed for more than 1,000 attacks on businesses, prompting the U.S. Secret Service to...

Home Depot Investigating Massive Data Breach

Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a costly data breach, and if early indications are correct, the hackers may have been on the home giant’s network longer than hackers were on Target’s systems, and a greater number of consumers may be at risk. A Home Depot representative confirmed...

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'...