Thriving Beyond The Operating System: Financial Threat Group Targets Volume Boot Record

In September, Mandiant Consulting identified a financially motivated threat group targeting payment card data using sophisticated malware that executes before the operating system boots. This rarely seen technique, referred to as a ‘bootkit’, infects lower-level system components making it very...

Parking Services Confirm Payment Card Breaches

Two services that allow users to reserve over the Internet offsite parking spots at airports confirmed week that they recently suffered data breaches and customer data may be at risk. Park ‘N Fly, headquartered in Atlanta, and OneStopParking, which is based in Florence, Ky, allow travelers to...

Moonpig API Vulnerability Exposes Payment Card Data

Moonpig, a U.K.-based company that sells personalized greeting cards, mugs, t-shirts and other novelties, has been taken to the woodshed for poor security practices by a researcher who claims it’s simple to pilfer user and payment card data through a wonky mobile app API. The company this morning...

Honeywell PoS Software Vulnerable to Stack Buffer Overflows

There are stack buffer overflows in two components of a Honeywell point-of-sale software package that can allow attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerabilities lie in the HWOPOSScale.ocx and HWOPOSSCANNER.ocx components of Honeywell’s OLE for Retail Point-of-Sale packag...

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 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...

Soraya Malware Packs Form Grabbing, Memory Scraping Functionality

Malware capable of infecting point-of-sale devices once was a novelty, but it’s quickly becoming more common. Researchers at Arbor Networks have unearthed a new strain of PoS malware called Soraya that can scrape memory and has the ability to intercept information sent from Web forms, a specialty...

Vishing Attacks Targeting Dozens of Banks, Users' Card Data

A recent VoIP-based phishing campaign has been netting the payment card information of up to 250 Americans per day. Voice over IP phishing, or vishing, is a form of phishing that relies on users getting tricked into giving up their payment card information after receiving phone or SMS messages –...

Chewbacca Tor-Based Malware Targets Point of Sale Systems

Before you think that RAM scraper malware was a phenomenon specific to the Target breach, think again. A four-month-long crime spree targeting point-of-sale systems in a number of industries has been discovered; the campaign, however, is not related to the mammoth Target break-in or other recentl...

RAM Scrapers and the Target Data Breach

The retail and hospitality industries have a painful history with wonky point-of-sale systems and malware known as RAM scrapers. These attacks, which date back as many as six years, are designed to be injected into running processes and steal payment card data before it’s encrypted by a...