By Donna Tapellini
Consumer Reports
Retailers, restaurants, and other businesses have a new form of malware to fight, called Backoff. This latest form of cybercrime attacks remote-desktop applications that are used by point-of-sale systems, picking up credit cards and other consumer information along the way.
Details about Backoff were released today in a report by the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service. The malware is so new that anti-virus programs don't yet have the signatures to detect it.
About 600 brick-and-mortar businesses, large and small, were affected by the malware, according to Karl Sigler, threat intelligence manager for Trustwave, a security company that helped uncover the malware. Names of the businesses have not been released yet, since a criminal investigation is ongoing
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