After the violations data suffered by Target, Neiman Marcus and other retail companies of USA, the FBI warns that more such cyberattacks should be expected.
In a three-page report sent to U.S. retailers, the FBI warns that "crimes with POS malware will continue to increase in the near future, despite law enforcement and security operations to mitigate it."
In accordance with Reuters , the report warns businesses about “configuration-memory” malware which is specifically designed to infect point-of-sale (POS) systems. You'll also hear it like RAM scraper after it intervenes in the memory to retrieve data and not to some recording hardware such as hard disks, etc.The fact that this malware is readily available, coupled with the great profit it can give to its owner, has attracted the attention of a wide range of people.
Ένα από τα κομμάτια του κακόβουλου λογισμικού που αναφέρεται στην notice του FBI έχει βαπτιστεί “Alina”. Η απειλή αυτή περιλαμβάνει ένα feature which allows cybercriminals to upgrade it remotely, which makes it particularly difficult for security teams.
In the past year, the FBI detected about 20 data breaches that involved malicious software.
