Trend Micro 3Q Security Roundup: Hazards Ahead

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  1. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    When experts call on people to brace for disaster, it’s always based on signs that point to impending events. This quarter, we saw numerous signposts pointing to hazards to sensitive data that could lead to damages to individuals’ personal lives and organizations’ operations. The high-profile breaches, vulnerability exploits, and other attacks we saw this past quarter all serve as barometers of security disasters waiting to happen.

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    Amongst other attacks, Trend Micro found that PoS malware attacks affected more and more SMBs in the last quarter of 2015. Businesses also continue to be plagued by known but rapidly developing threats. Small businesses, specifically, were the prime market of cybercriminals who use the “shotgun approach” on PoS malware.

    For instance, cybercriminals used the Angler Exploit Kit to find PoS systems; GamaPOS users latched on the Andromeda botnet to target retail organizations; while other cybercriminals spread spammed messages to deliver the KASIDET malware with PoS RAM scraping capabilities. Trend Micro also noted the move to switch to EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) technology in the US, which is supposed to better secure businesses from counterfeiting, but may still be compromised by RAM-scraping malware.

    Find out more about these threats and their possible future implications in the full report “3Q Security Roundup: Hazards Ahead: Current Vulnerabilities Prelude Impending Attacks.” There, we also touch on espionage campaigns targeting political personalities and the state of Internet-ready devices.
     

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