BlackPOS

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2017
US Food Payment Kiosk Vendor Avanti Markets Hacked, Biometric data stolen

US payment kiosk vendor Avanti Markets that installs its self-service payment devices in corporate breakrooms across America suffered a security breach. The US payment kiosk vendor Avanti Markets that installs its self-service payment devices in thousands of corporate breakrooms across America suffered a security breach. According to the popular investigator Brian Krebs who first reported the news, the systems of the company were infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2015
Operation Black Atlas, PoS malware is flooding network worldwide

Trend Micro uncovered a large-scale operation dubbed Black Atlas operation, in reference to notorious BlackPOS PoS malware. It’s Christmas time also for crooks, in this period the number of credit card breaches and scams increases with alarming punctuality. In the US, we use to assist an increase of credit card breaches involving PoS malware, last victims in […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2015
PoSeidon the most sophisticated PoS malware until now

Cisco Security Team has spotted in the wild a new Point-of-Sale malware dubbed PoSeidon that is more sophisticated than previously detected PoS malware. Expert at Cisco have discovered a new Point-of-Sale (PoS)  malware dubbed PoSeidon. The experts have discovered many similarities with the popular Zeus Trojan and use sophisticated methods to find card data respect other POS malware like BlackPoS, which was used […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2014
Electronic Payment Service Cash Anywhere Publicly Admits to Security Breach

Shockingly, for the last five years, hackers have been using a banking malware to siphon unencrypted credit/debit card information from the computer networks of Charge Anywhere, an electronic payment service used by millions of merchants worldwide. Charge Anywhere, an electronic payment service provider to merchant publicly admitted to a security breach that may have compromise […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2014
Trustwave analyzed of point-of-sale malware

Experts at Trustwave analyzed point-of-sale malware providing data related principal code used, exfiltration and persistence techniques implemented. Trustwave firm as published an interesting report on the point-of-sale malware based on its investigation on different breaches involving payment card data. The experts at Trustwave have examined a large amount of malware that targets point-of-sale devices, this family of malicious code is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2014
Soraya PoS Malware, a new start in criminal ecosystem

Security experts at Arbor Networks have discovered a new type of PoS malware called Soraya that implements memory scraping and Web forms grabbing. During 2013 security experts have discovered numerous malware targeting point-of-sale systems, BlackPOS, Dexter and vSkymmer are just some example of malicious code detected in the last 12 months. Researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2014
Nemanja, a botnet of thousand POSs, Grocery Management and Accounting Systems

Experts at Intelligence firm IntelCrawler have detected a new botnet dubbed Nemanja composed by compromised POS terminals, accounting systems and grocery management platforms. On March 2014 experts at IntelCrawler have identified Nemanja, one of the biggest botnets based on compromised POS terminals, accounting systems and grocery management platforms. Cyber-threat intelligence company IntelCrawler is one of the companies most active […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2014
Tor network is increasingly attractive for cybercrime

Cyber criminals are abusing even more Tor Network for illegal activities, from botnet management to money laundering, the number of services is increasing. Tor network is even more used by cyber criminals to cover their illegal activities, the Tor community has observed, for example an alarming increase in the number of malware that abuse of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2014
Tor-based ChewBacca botnet is infecting POS stealing Credit Card data

Researchers at RSA discovered a new variant of Tor-based malware ‘ChewBacca’, is able to infect Point-of-Sale stealing Credit Card data. The recent data breaches at US retailers Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels have raised the alert level of malware-based attacks against POS systems. More than one hundred million Americans is victims of scams that mainly used a malware known as BlackPOS or […]