I am totally not surprised, why I have said that AV is next to useless these days, because the hackers, and malware authors are creating malware that specifically can't be detected by modern AV.
Again, control the code execution, you have a better chance at keeping the Malware off the system. ( Abiet not 100% fullproof) Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:[email protected] Cell:401-639-3505 -----Original Message----- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [ISN] Russian Trojan blamed for credit card losses at US diner 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. [...] ~ 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
