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Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2016

CenterPOS – The evolution of POS malware

Security Experts at FireEye discovered a new strain of POS malware dubbed CenterPOS that is threatening the retail systems. In the last 2/3 years, we have seen a significant increase in the number of POS malware, their diffusion is becoming even more worrying. We read about many high-profile breaches that involved high-complex malware targeting payment systems […]

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 December 01, 2015

Pro PoS, a new PoS malware available for sale in the underground

A new strain of PoS malware dubbed Pro PoS Solution is available for sale in the underground forums. It’s Christmas also for criminals who have found a new gift under the Christmas tree, a new powerful strain of PoS malware. According to the threat intelligence firm InfoArmor, the new PoS malware dubbed Pro PoS is available […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2015

Cherry Picker, a PoS Malware even more threatening

Researchers at Trustwave have published the analysis of the Cherry Picker threat, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware that went undetected over the years. A point-of-sale (PoS) malware that went largely undetected for the past several years has been analyzed by researchers at Trustwave. Security experts at Trustwave have analyzed an insidious point-of-sale (PoS) malware dubbed Cherry Picker that threat has […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2015

MWZLesson POS Trojan borrows code from other malware

Security experts at Doctor Web have discovered a new PoS Trojan dubbed MWZLesson that borrows code from other popular malicious software. Security experts at Dr. Web have discovered a new PoS Trojan that was designed by mixing code from other malware. The new PoS Trojan, dubbed Trojan.MWZLesson, was designed reusing the code of other popular malware, including the Dexter PoS […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2015

Cybercrime is paying with 1,425% return on investment

Trustwave firm published a report related to 2014 incidents that revealed cyber criminal activities are paying with 1,425% return on investment. Hackers are seeing a whopping 1,425% return on investment for these two kinds of attacks Security experts at Trustwave published an interesting report on the return on investment related to illegal activities online. The experts revealed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2015

MalumPoS PoS malware used against Hotels and other Industries

Malware researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a news strain of the malumPoS used to target hospitality, food and beverage, and retail industries. Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new strain of the MalumPoS malware that was reconfigured to compromise PoS systems based on the Oracle® MICROS® platform. Trend Micro was the first […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2015

NitlovePoS, The New PoS Malware is being spread by Spam

Researchers at FireEye have detected a new strain of point-of-sale (POS) malware being used in the wild and served through a spam campaign. A new malware called NitlovePoS has the capability of capture and exfiltrate track one and two from payment cards, and to accomplish that it scans the running processes of the infected machine. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2015

Punkey, a new POS Malware in the criminal ecosystem

During a recent investigation the experts at Trustwave encountered a new strain of POS malware dubbed Punkey which presents interesting features. Malware researchers at Trustwave have detected a new point of sale (PoS) malware dubbed Punkey that was used by criminal crews to compromise payment systems of some organisations. The experts discovered Punkey during a law […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2014

PoS malware d4re|dev1| is also targeting Mass Transit Systems

Security experts at IntelCrawler discovered a strain of PoS malware that is also targeting ticket vending machines and electronic kiosks. IntelCrawler cyber threat intelligence firm has detected a new strain of Point-of-Sale malware called “d4re|dev1|” (read dareldevil), which is used by cyber criminals to infect ticket vending machines and electronic kiosks. The experts discovered new POS malware infecting Mass […]

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CenterPOS – The evolution of POS malware

Operation Black Atlas, PoS malware is flooding network worldwide

Pro PoS, a new PoS malware available for sale in the underground

Cherry Picker, a PoS Malware even more threatening

MWZLesson POS Trojan borrows code from other malware

Cybercrime is paying with 1,425% return on investment

MalumPoS PoS malware used against Hotels and other Industries

NitlovePoS, The New PoS Malware is being spread by Spam

Punkey, a new POS Malware in the criminal ecosystem

PoS malware d4re|dev1| is also targeting Mass Transit Systems

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