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 ...

A new analysis of sinkholes Backoff point-of-sale malware paints a bleak picture of the state of point-of-sale security. Kaspersky Lab researchers say that a recent analysis of two Backoff malware ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about security, hacking and malware. Breaking in to PoS systems and stealing credit card data sounds like an impressive ...

A new breed of point-of-sale malware has been found in several recent attacks, and experts say that the tool, known as Backoff, has extensive data stealing and exfiltration capabilities, including ...

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 ...

Backoff algorithms have been introduced to improve network performance by reducing collisions over networks, especially in large ones. The binary exponential back off used in the standard IEEE 802.11 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over a thousand major enterprise networks and small and medium businesses in the U.S. have been compromised by a recently discovered malware package called “Backoff” and are probably unaware of it, ...