Melanie Watson writes: Over a four-week period earlier this year, KPMG studied [14 organizations] in Sweden to gather information relating to malicious traffic. During this time period, 15,586 security alerts were recorded. […] Astonishingly, 93% of those organisations that took part were ‘breached’ in the given time frame. The word ‘breached’ in this report has been defined by…
Category: Malware
Goodwill starts identifying stores impacted by payment processor breach
Following up on a breach first disclosed by Brian Krebs: Goodwill Industries of Kansas has released a list of twenty stores across the state affected by a security breach it announced in July. The charity said it confirmed the breach after an extensive investigation. The Goodwill said the stores affected used the same third-party vendor to…
How Statoil held off hacker attack last year
It’s always helpful when companies are willing to talk about what happened when they were attacked. In the wake of yesterday’s report about major Norwegian oil firms being attacked or warned of attacks, Statoil revealed that it was also the target of a massive attack last year. As reported on NewsinEnglish.no: “It started on March…
More than 1,000 businesses affected by same malware as Target
Salvador Rodriguez reports: The Secret Service estimates more than 1,000 businesses have been affected by the same kind of cyberattack that scraped Target’s cash register system for consumer credit card information, the Department of Homeland Security said in an advisory Friday afternoon. Criminals are carrying out the attack by hacking into businesses’ networks and then…
Update: UPS Store breach involved 105,000 transactions
Mathew J. Schwartz has more on the recently disclosed malware breach that impacted 51 UPS Store franchise centers. Read his report on InfoRisk Today
UPS Store discovers malware intrusion; notifies customers at 51 franchise locations
From the uh-oh dept.: UPS Store, on behalf of 51 franchise center locations writes: We are writing to notify you of an incident that involves certain of your personal information. The UPS Store, Inc. (“The UPS Store”), among many other U.S. retailers, recently received a government bulletin regarding a broad-based malware intrusion targeting retailers in the United…