17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target)

Banjo · Jan 17, 2014

several other breaches may be revealed soon"

http://intelcrawler.com/about/press08

nkhoi · Jan 30, 2014

here is the problem: easy passwords

Before both breaches IntelCrawler detected large-scale RDP brute-forcing attacks on Point-of-Sales terminals across the US, Australia and Canada started at the beginning of 2013 year in winter period with week (weak?) passwords such as:

"pos":"pos";
"micros":"micros" (MICROS Systems, Inc. - Point-of-Sale Hardware);
"edc":"123456" (EDC - Electronic Draft Capture).
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17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target)

Banjo

nkhoi