Silly...everyone knows that the Trojan was not Russian. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Fwd: [ISN] Russian Trojan blamed for credit card losses at US diner
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
