Basically with over
the counter technology, an Eastern European Crime Syndicate opportunist scored
big on an Australian business netting one half million credit cards. This
attack could result in $25 million in fraudulent transactions. It is suspected that this is the same group
that hacked US Subway Restaurant back in December of 2011 and that they
continue to move into other countries using their opportunist methods.
“it is difficult to
imagine,” says Tero Pollanen,
international fraud prevention specialist, “with all the publicity and warnings
about these kind of activities, that companies still continue to take the
attitude that it cannot happen to me.”
In the long run, you get what you do not pay for as a result.
The attack by this
syndicate was neither massive in scale or complex and did not involver super
hi-tech hackers. They are simply
opportunists seeking vulnerabilities in systems. As the investigators in this case stated,
“the network was set up by <people> that did not understand IT security
and…that it was an accident waiting to happen.”
Ref.: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/312068,half-a-million-credit-cards-stolen-from-aussie-business.aspx
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