Which is why I also forward this to work, and will be showing it to
our Senior Staff.

They think I'm a paranoid freak, and I think that they need to know
that they are lambs being led to slaughter if they ignore this.

Kurt

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 08:56, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> And, that organized crime has moved the malware scene beyond the "look at
> me!!!" stage.  They longer they stay undetected, the greater the ROI.
>
> ASB (My XeeSM Profile)
> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Problem here, everyone seems so surprised that the infection was not
>> detected by antivirus, and presumably, had no noticeable side effects on
>> computer operation.  It needs to get into the public discourse and become
>> common knowledge that AV is not enough.
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> -----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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
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