ANT- HOME DEPOT DATA BREACH
HOME DEPOT DATA BREACH- September 8th, 2014, Home Depot released a statement indicating that its payment card systems were breached. The malware was able to grab credit/debit card information of 56 million customers. The hardware and building supply retailer announced in September that its POS systems had been infected with malware. The company later said an investigation concluded that a “unique, custom-built” malware had been used, which posed as anti-virus software. The attacker infiltrated the POS networks and were able to steal the payment card data. The attackers were able to gain access to one of Home Depot’s vendor environments by using a third-party vendor’s logon credentials. Then they exploited a vulnerability in Windows, which allowed them to pivot from the vendor-specific environment to the Home Depot corporate environment. Once they were in the Home Depot network, they were able install memory scraping malware on ove...