Law360, New York ( September 3, 2014, 6:21 PM EDT) -- Cyber criminals have yet another tool in their arsenal of malware based-attacks, called Backoff Point-of-Sale Malware. In their recent advisements, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, U.S. Secret Service and National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center[1] describe Backoff as a form of malware used by cyber criminals to scrape credit/debit and card account information from point-of-sale terminals. Backoff capitalizes on an old vulnerability — the exploitation by malicious actors of poorly executed remote access controls to open "back doors" to corporate information technology networks and point-of-sale terminals. The Secret Service recently alerted that more than 1,000 U.S. businesses have been effected by the malware.[2] If a company has POS systems in its network, the threat posed by Backoff requires an immediate response....