POS Fraud: How Hackers Strike

Four Romanian suspects were indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this month for their alleged connection to a multimillion-dollar point-of-sale fraud scheme. [See Four Romanians Charged for POS Fraud.]

Investigators believe hundreds of U.S. merchants, including 150 Subway franchises, and more than 80,000 U.S. consumers were likely victims.

The defendants are accused of war-driving - a hacking method that involves remotely scanning for open or vulnerable Internet connections to POS systems. Once a weak system was detected, the four allegedly hacked internal computers and installed keylogging software onto the POS systems. In many cases, according to the indictment, they also installed Trojans, which allowed them ongoing access to the systems, giving them the ability to install and re-install malware over time.

Source: Bank Info Security

Four Romanians Charged for POS Fraud

 

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted four Romanians for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that is believed to have compromised hundreds of U.S. merchants and more than 80,000 U.S. consumers.
According to the charges, between 2008 and May 2011, Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, 27, Iulian Dolan, 27, Cezar Iulian Butu, 26, and Florin Radu, 23, are believed to have remotely hacked point-of-sale and checkout systems at more than 200 merchants to steal credit, debit and prepaid card data. Affected merchants include more than 150 Subway restaurant franchises throughout the U.S. The compromised card data is believed to be linked to millions of dollars in unauthorized transactions.

Source: Bank Info Security