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from the hand-over-your-wallet-and-no-one-gets-e-coli dept.
Chris Bing from CyberScoop notes:
"A sophisticated hacking group with suspected ties to cybercrime gangs operating in Eastern Europe is now actively targeting and breaching prominent brand-name restaurants in the U.S. More than 20 U.S.-based hospitality companies — the sector that includes hotels and restaurants — have been successfully hacked by FIN7 since the summer of 2016..." https://www.cyberscoop.com/chipotle-hack-fin7-carbanak-baja-fresh-ruby-tuesday/ (Javascript required.)
FIN7 is also linked to the Carbanak APT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbanak and was accused a string of bank cyber-heists possibly totalling US $1 billion: https://threatpost.com/carbanak-ring-steals-1-billion-from-banks/111054/ https://securelist.com/blog/research/68732/the-great-bank-robbery-the-carbanak-apt/
This group has been described as "the first international cybermafia, a group of cybercriminals from Russia, Ukraine and other parts of Europe and China." and are suspected to have been involved with an SEC impersonation email campaign:
"In the phishing emails, FIN7 spoofed the sender email address as "EDGAR filings@sec.gov" in an email with an attachment reading disguised as a word doc entitled "Important_Changes_to_Form10_K.doc" " -http://www.readingeagle.com/business-weekly/article/scam-report-phishing-emails-target-executives-for-information.
Two other methods are also said to have been used in their attacks: fileless malware https://threatpost.com/hard-target-fileless-malware/125054/ and fake windows compatibility patches http://www.pcworld.com/article/3194523/security/financial-cybercrime-group-abuses-windows-app-compatibility-feature.html.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2017, @04:04PM (2 children)
A friend described starting a restaurant downtown in the mid-70s. They were putting the finishing touches on the remodel, moving in furniture and planning the opening in a few days when a guy with a broken nose showed up. He told them that the pinball machine was about to be delivered and would be going next to the entryway. They had not ordered any games or amusements. After a little informal "research" it became clear that they better accept the pinball machine--a mob owned business.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2017, @04:07PM
Ah the good old days when you knew who was fucking you. Criminal honesty, who thought we'd pine for such a day?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2017, @04:46PM
Ah, the good old days when the Mob was about local cash business, coin-op laundry was (is?) another one. To go international they almost needed something like Bitcoin to be invented... Wait, who was that Satoshi guy?