Security News > 2020 > January > This page is currency unavailable... Travelex scrubs UK homepage, kills services, knackers other sites amid 'software virus' infection

Foreign currency mega-exchange Travelex said on Thursday it was forced offline by a "Software virus" infection, bring down a number of currency-exchange websites with it.

The outage at Travelex has had a knock-in effect in that it knackered currency-swap services for a number of UK banks and organizations relying on the exchange.

Travelex could not say when it expected the services to be back online.

While no details were given on just what the infection was or how it got onto the network, Brit infosec watcher Kevin Beaumont pointed out Travelex had public-facing Windows remote-desktop servers with no Network Level Authentication enabled - that's the feature that requires users to authenticate before they can establish a session and attempt to login.

As some of you have spotted, Travelex is using Windows Server 2008 R2 with.

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