Oracle MICROS Security Breach Has Ties to Carbanak Gang

MICROS, Oracle's point-of-sale business, suffered a security breach last month after Oracle's staff addressed malicious code on the MICROS support portal and some legacy MICROS systems, KrebsOnSecurity reports.

The attack came to light after an Oracle insider told Krebs, a security journalist, that the company had detected a breach on a number of computers and servers, which later turned out to be more than 700 systems.

The attackers used their initial foothold in the system to compromise the MICROS network, a system for handling customer payments via the MICROS system deployed on PoS terminals all over the world.

Attackers compromised Oracle MICROS support portal

Additionally, the attackers compromised the MICROS support portal, where the companies that deploy the MICROS software come to ask for help from Oracle's experts.

The hackers inserted...