Brute-Forcing Botnet Sniffs Out Lax POS Systems

Over a two-week time span earlier this year, a botnet composed of thousands of computers actively sought out and broke into exposed point of sale POS systems that used poor or default passwords. The botnet, dug up and dubbed BrutPOS by security firm FireEye, leveraged more than 5,000 machines and...

BrutPOS Botnet Compromises insecure RDP Servers at Point-of-Sale Systems

Cyber criminals are infecting thousands of computers around the world with malware and are utilizing those compromised machines to break into Point-of-Sale PoS terminals using brute-force techniques, and the attackers have already compromised 60 PoS terminals by brute-force attacks against...