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Six more US retailers hit by Target-like hacks, security firm says

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IDG News Service – Cybercriminals have stolen payment card data from six more U.S. retailers using similar point-of-sale malware that compromised
Target, a computer crime intelligence company said Friday.

The conclusion comes from a study of members-only forums where cybercriminals buy and sell data and malicious software tools,
said Dan Clements[cq], president of IntelCrawler, which conducted the analysis.

The retailers have not been publicly named, but IntelCrawler is providing technical information related to the breaches to
law enforcement, Clements said in a telephone interview Friday.

IntelCrawler has also identified a 17-year-old Russian who it says created the BlackPOS malware, which intercepts unencrypted
payment card data after a card is swiped. Security experts believe malware based on BlackPOS was used against Target.

The teenager, who goes by the online nickname “ree4,” sold more than 40 copies of BlackPOS to cybercriminals in Eastern Europe
and elsewhere, according to forum postings IntelCrawler analyzed.

Clements said IntelCrawler is “90 percent” sure of its finding, based on the forum postings and sources it communicated with.

The forum posts indicate the teenager sold the malware for US$ 2,000 or for a share of the profits that came from monetizing
stolen payment card details, Clements said.

BlackPOS was also sold to “carding” websites such as .rescator, Track2.name and Privateservices.biz that trade in stolen card
details, according to IntelCrawler.

BlackPOS was originally called Kaptoxa, which is Russian slang for potato. Clements said the Russian teenager eventually renamed
the malware BlackPOS during a fresh marketing push.

Dallas-based security company iSight Partners wrote in a report earlier this week on the Target hack, which it called the
“Kaptoxa operation.” It says the hackers used a high level of skill to gain stealthy access to the retailer’s network.

Since early 2013, IntelCrawler has seen a brisk trade in login credentials for POS terminals on underground forums, suggesting
cybercriminals are still finding gaps in industry security recommendations for how payment card data is handled.

Cybercriminals were selling “remote desktop protocol” credentials for POS terminals, which would allow them access to the
machines, Clements said.

In many cases, default passwords had not been changed on the terminals, which were located in the U.S., Australia and Canada,
he said. In other cases, cybercriminals were successfully trying many combinations of usernames and passwords to find the
right one, known as a brute-force attack.

Send news tips and comments to jeremy_kirk@idg.com. Follow me on Twitter: @jeremy_kirk

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

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NSA’s spy gear: ANT is a secret weapon that hacks electronics worldwide

3 hours ago | Technology, US | Posted by Joshua Cook

From Samsung smartphones to Dell computers, Americans are being tracked by the NSA via electronic spy gear. Last week Snowden warned Americans in a Christmas message that big brother is watching. “We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go,” he said. Now Snowden has leaked the document that proves his claim.

One of the documents Snowden has reportedly leaked is a product catalog for spies and hackers at the NSA.

According to SPIEGEL, “a product catalog reveals that an NSA division called ANT (Access Network Technology) has burrowed its way into nearly all the security architecture made by the major players in the industry — including American global market leader Cisco and its Chinese competitor Huawei, but also producers of mass-market goods, such as US computer-maker Dell.”

The article claims that ANT specialists at the NSA’s department for Tailored Access Operations can remotely access, monitor, and manipulate data in electronics around the world. Electronic devices that cannot be attacked via the internet are intercepted and manually bugged. In some cases, the NSA actually intercepts packages to put “backdoors” in electronics.

SPIEGEL explains, “These NSA agents, who specialize in secret back doors, are able to keep an eye on all levels of our digital lives — from computing centers to individual computers, from laptops to mobile phones. For nearly every lock, ANT seems to have a key in its toolbox. And no matter what walls companies erect, the NSA’s specialists seem already to have gotten past them.”

ANT specialists can choose spy gear from a 50-page catalog to assist them in spying operations.

Some of the listed items are:

• Rigged monitor cable – $ 30 – Allows “TAO personnel to see what is displayed on the targeted monitor.


• GSM base station – $ 40,000 – Mimics mobile phone tower and allows cell phone monitoring.


• Computer bugging devices (50 pack) - $ 1 million – Disguised as normal USB plugs, it is capable of sending and receiving data via radio undetected.

SPIEGEL states that these American technology companies are not aware that the NSA has hacked their systems.

“Cisco does not work with any government to modify our equipment, nor to implement any so-called security ‘back doors’ in our products,” the company said in a statement.

Last week, Ben Swann, reported that U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III ruled it was legal for the NSA to collect bulk meta-data of American’s phone records.

“One could argue that the ruling by a Federal Judge that the NSA spying program is legal was not only a horrible ruling, but based on his personal view and not grounded at all in law,” Swann said.

The lawsuit argues that the phone surveillance program violates both the First Amendment rights of free speech and association, and the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. At least three other lawsuits challenging bulk data collection are pending in other federal courts. Attorney Brett Max Kaufman said the ACLU will appeal Friday’s ruling.

The newly leaked documents are striking, though. As the NSA revelations keep on coming, it could provide more evidence for civil liberty lawsuits.

Joshua Cook currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina. Joshua Cook’s articles have also been cited on sites such as InfoWars, Reason.com, WND.com, Breitbart.com, DailyCaller and FreedomOutPost.com. If you have any tips please email me at joshuacook@benswann.com. Like me on FB and follow me on Twitter.

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Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums

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posted on Nov, 30 2013 @ 12:30 PM

The Dutch intelligence service – AIVD – hacks internet web forums to collect the data of all users. The majority of these people are unknown to the intelligence services and are not specified as targets when the hacking and data-collection process starts. A secret document of former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden shows that the AIVD use a technology called Computer Network Exploitation – CNE – to hack the web forums and collect the data.

Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums

We’re doomed. There’ll be no escape…

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Syrian Electronic Army hacks N.Y. Times

For the second time in two weeks, The New York Times website is not working for some users.

“The New York Times Web site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working on fully restoring the site,” the Times announced via Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. Times spokespeople did not respond to a request for comment from POLITICO.

The Times’ site went down on Aug. 14, leading to a flurry of speculation about a possible hack. Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy said the crash was the result of “a scheduled maintenance update.”

UPDATE (5:10 p.m.): Via Twitter, Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy says the shutdown is “most likely the result of [a] malicious external attack”:

re: nytimes.com -  initial assessment – issue is most likely result of malicious external attack.  working to fix

UPDATE (6:20 p.m.): NYTimes.com, Twitter.com and HuffingtonPost.UK all were reportedly hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army on Tuesday afternoon, according to reports. The New York Times, which is continuing to publish stories through company site nytco.com, has a full report on the hack here.

More details here as we get them…

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