I would imagine that there are many business that would be victims. On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> The full article indicates that Seattle and San Francisco area > businesses also might have been victim of this attack. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: InfoSec News <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 23:28 > Subject: [ISN] Russian Trojan blamed for credit card losses at US diner > To: [email protected] > > > > http://news.techworld.com/security/3237726/russian-trojan-blamed-for-credit-card-losses-at-us-diner/ > > By John E Dunn > Techworld > 01 September 10 > > Hundreds of lunchtime customers of a diner in the US city of Memphis are > believed to have had funds stolen from their debit and credit cards > after PCs at the venue became infected with malware. > > Large numbers of customers reported having had funds taken after using > Jason’s Deli in recent weeks, which prompted an investigation by the US > Secret Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security. > > After establishing that staff were not involved, police discovered that > a computer system used by to verify credit cards had been infected with > unidentified new-variant malware, which had logged and forwarded the > data to criminals believed to be in Russia. > > “The computers received a virus that was unknown before this event,” > said Special Agent Rick Harlow of the US Secret Service in a news > conference. “No antivirus program that we ran against it found it,” he > said. > > [...] > > > _______________________________________________________ > Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org > http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
