PC World

The ‘Backoff’ malware used in retail data breaches is spreading

The number of computers in North America infected by the Backoff malware, which is blamed for a string of payment card breaches, has risen sharply, according to research from network security company ...
Retail TouchPoints

How To Protect Your Organization From Backoff Malware

Backoff malware is giving retailers a new cyber threat to worry about. With instances of this new attack vector appearing as far back as late 2013, security researchers digging into Backoff’s reach ...
American Banker

How 'Backoff' Malware Works and Why Banks Should Care

The Department of Homeland Security sounded an alarm last week about this young strain of malicious software. The agency directed its warning mainly at retailers, but banks are also vulnerable to ...
Computerworld

Backoff malware linked to data breaches is spreading

The number of computers in North America infected by the Backoff malware, which is blamed for a string of payment card breaches, has risen sharply, according to research from network security company ...
American Banker

How to Get Backoff Malware to Step Back

There's a classic approach behind many of the retail cyberattacks that make the news: Backoff malware, which sniffs the traffic that flows on a network to identify and steal credit card data passed ...
Threat Post

Backoff Malware Identified as Culprit in Dairy Queen Breach

Close to 400 Dairy Queen locations were breached this summer and the company has pinned the blame on hackers using the Backoff point-of-sale malware. Backoff apparently has a sweet tooth.