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Botnet brute-forces remote access to point-of-sale systems |
July 09, 2014
Thousands of compromised computers are actively trying to break into point-of-sale (POS) systems using brute-force techniques to guess remote administration credentials.The computers are part of a botnet, dubbed BrutPOS by researchers from security firm FireEye, that has been active since at least February. The botnet scans attacker-specified IP (Internet Protocol) address ranges for systems that accept Remote Desktop Protocol (port 3389) connections.When an RDP service is identified, the BrutPOS malware attempts to log in with user names and passwords from a predefined list.“Some of the usernames and passwords indicate that the attackers are looking for specific brands of POS systems such as Micros,” the FireEye researchers said Wednesday in a blog post.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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