Clop ransomware claimed to have stolen 2 million credit cards from E-Land Retail over a one-year period. E-Land Retail, a subsidiary of E-Land Global, operates numerous retail clothing stores, including New Core and NC Department Store.Last months, E-Land retail shut down number of stores after suffering a CLOP ransomware attack. E-Land Retail assure that this ransomware attack has not affected the customer data which was kept on different server in encrypted form.
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This can be done at a speed and scale that humans and traditional signature-based tools simply cannot achieve.
This is a timely reminder that Ransomware operators have changed their tactics and become far more targeted. Not only are they performing data theft and public bullying, but they remain active inside an organisation for extended periods prior to detection. In this case, valuable credit card details were stolen from retail Point of Sale systems- such systems are often unable to be covered by end point security software.
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