Visa Alert and Update on the Oracle Breach
Summary: Visa issued a security alert on Friday warning merchants using Oracle MICROS point-of-sale devices to check for malicious software or unusual network activity and to change device passwords, and published a list of Internet addresses possibly tied to the Oracle breach and an Eastern European organized cybercrime gang. KrebsOnSecurity had reported on Aug. 8 that hackers broke into hundreds of servers at Oracle's retail division and compromised the MICROS customer support portal, which serves point-of-sale systems at more than 330,000 cash registers worldwide.
Bottom line: Some of the addresses in Visa's alert are associated with the Carbanak Gang, which Kaspersky Lab estimates has stolen more than $1 billion from banks and retailers, and a confidential Oracle source said the breach began in the company's Manassas, Va. point-of-sale data center.
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