At least 4,500 payment cards have been compromised in the United States and Canada by a new point-of-sale malware, JackPOS, that is based on Alina, according to researchers with cyber intelligence company IntelCrawler.
Researchers with cyber intelligence company IntelCrawler have discovered a new point-of-sale malware known as JackPOS, which is said to have code similar to the RAM-scraping POS malware known as Alina.
Target announced last week that hackers compromised its systems using credentials stolen from a third party vendor and, on Thursday, Fazio Mechanical confirmed that it was the victim of an attack.
The Bank of England has released the results of Waking Shark II, a Nov. 12, 2013, four-hour simulated cyber attack in London involving hundreds of financial institutions that was designed to test the city's cyber security readiness.
The Gameover variant of the nefarious Zeus banking trojan has recently been observed sneaking past defenses as an encrypted EXE file, according to researchers with Malcovery.
White Lodging Services Corporation is investigating a suspected breach of its point-of-sale systems, the Indiana-based hotel management company announced on Monday.
