Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores

The same miscreants behind recent cyberattacks on British retailers are now trying to dig their claws into major American retailers' IT environments – and in some cases even deploying ransomware, according to Google. The cloud giant's threat-intel nerve-center Mandiant suspects the Scattered Spider (aka UNC3944) gang is behind …

[Gene Cash]

And nothing of value was lost

Target has been breached so many times, I only pay cash.

If target.com were down, that would not be a reduction in functionality. I was standing in a Target store and I couldn't get info out of target.com on 3 items I was interested in.

The last time I used walmart.com, it complained I wasn't using IE (not Edge, IE) and refused to work with Firefox.

Sears & K-Mart are long out of business.

Lowes gave me:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.lowes.com/search?" on this server.

Reference #18.20f9ce17.1747190796.6b8d4be

https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.20f9ce17.1747190796.6b8d4be

homedepot.com says they don't have drill bits. Really? A big-box tool and construction supply store doesn't have drill bits? Are you sure about that?

So as an American, who gives a shit? I hope they all get burned to the ground.

[PRR]

Re: And nothing of value was lost

> last time I used walmart.com, it complained I wasn't using IE (not Edge, IE) and refused to work with Firefox.

I order snacks from Walmart.com monthly, and last month a commodity laptop delivered at my door.

> ..... homedepot.com says they don't have drill bits. Really?

Using the exact term 'drill bits' I got 7 suggestions, including metal, wood, steel, masonry, concrete, tile. For metal they claimed to have 1,800 choices. Some like hole-saws were near-misses, but on the whole they got lots. The website has had a flaw for over 14 years: on a multi-page listing next-page goes to the bottom of that page, you have to PgUp PgUp PgUp.

This in Win7 FireFox 115.23.*esr Walmart.com has never discussed InnerNet Expoder with me.

Something is wrong but it may not all be on their end.

[Anonymous Coward]

"The loosely knit gang of cybercriminals, whose members are thought to include males in their teens and early 20s located primarily in the US and UK,"

What! You mean they're not all Russian? I thought it was Poootin wat dun it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Stingy Retailers

Retailers are too Stingy with investment.

Several tier 1 or premium retailers/ultra premium dept store (not Harrods) still pissing about with PoSReady 7 or XP Embedded for their EPoS.

Deserve everything they get.

[Martin an gof]

Re: Stingy Retailers

still pissing about with PoSReady 7 or XP Embedded

Or - and I'm not in the business so I don't really know - keeping up with new OSes which nearly always require new hardware to run on is so far away from the core business of a shop that why would you invest huge amounts of money to replace a system which is working? Could turn the argument around and moan about vendors of OSes and of EPOS kit not supporting their own products for more than a few years. It's almost blackmail to say "aah yes, we know that product is vulnerable and, true, we could fix it, but nope. Buy the new shiny."

XPE's had quite a long life though I suppose :-)

M.

[A_GIRL_Our_Trainer]

Probably to do with the IONS.

UK has been sending the IONS to the US, not great :)