As Target breach unfolds, information vanishes from Web

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245610/As_Target_breach_unfolds_information_vanishes_from_Web

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
January 22, 2014

At least three security companies have scrubbed information related to 
Target from the Web, highlighting the ongoing sensitivity around one of 
the largest-ever data breaches.

How hackers broke into Target and installed malware on point-of-sale 
terminals that harvested up to 40 million payment card details is 
extremely sensitive. Now, details that give insight into the attack are 
being hastily removed or redacted, perhaps not to tip off hackers or 
jeopardize the investigation.

On Dec. 18, a malicious software sample was submitted to ThreatExpert.com, 
a Symantec-owned service. But the public report the service generated 
vanished.

The report was a technical description of how the Target malware 
functioned, including network drive maps, an IP address and a login and 
password for an internal company server.

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