Simms Fishing Products in Bozeman, Montana is notifying customers after their hosting service discovered that malware had been inserted that seemingly captured customers’ name, address, and credit card information, including the credit card number, expiration date, and CVV2 code. Cards use for purchases made between September 1 and November 6, 2014 may have been compromised. Simms notes that their unnamed website…
Category: Malware
Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance
Symantec reports: An advanced piece of malware, known as Regin, has been used in systematic spying campaigns against a range of international targets since at least 2008. A back door-type Trojan, Regin is a complex piece of malware whose structure displays a degree of technical competence rarely seen. Customizable with an extensive range of capabilities…
Staples Confirms POS Malware Attack
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Staples is now confirming that there was a malware-related breach, although it’s offering scant additional information. “We are continuing to investigate a data security incident involving an intrusion into some of our retail point-of-sale and computer systems,” Staples spokesman Mark Cautela tells Information Security Media Group. “We believe we have eradicated…
Hackers went after Detroit database, official
Nathan Bomey reports: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan told the 2014 North American International Cyber Summit in Detroit crowd Monday that cyberattackers recently seized control of an immaterial city database and sought hundreds of thousands of dollars in a digital currency called bitcoin. The attack went nowhere, but Duggan said it was an example of the…
Link Found in Staples, Michaels Breaches
Brian Krebs reports: The breach at office supply chain Staples impacted roughly 100 stores and was powered by some of the same criminal infrastructure seen in the intrusion disclosed earlier this year at Michaels craft stores, according to sources close to the investigation. Multiple banks interviewed by this author say they’ve received alerts from Visa and MasterCard about cards impacted in the breach at Staples,…
Former Eaton Corp. Employee Indicted For Installing Malware
A federal indictment was unsealed today charging Arturas Samoilovas, age 35, of Stow, Ohio, with one count of transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent…