When these new threats do strike, victims may be at an even greater disadvantage than usual because of the lack of intelligence to create useful threat profiles.
The trojan hit the popular point-of-sale and ATM software developer, infecting computers in a lab outside the U.S., SC Media learned exclusively from Prevailion CEO Karim Hijazi.
Regardless of whether or not the incidents are connected, the latest attack will carry ramifications, exacerbated by the combined effects of previous incidents.
Mike McLellan, senior security researcher at Secureworks, talks about the discovery and investigation of one recent Chinese attack campaign that revealed how nation-state actors will leverage any code at their disposal.