Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2015
The experts at Trend Micro discovered GamaPoS, a new PoS malware that is spread through the Andromeda botnet in the US and Canada. GamaPoSÂ is the name of the last PoS malware used by criminal crews to steal credit card data from the memory of payment systems. Security experts at Trend Micro discovered which discovered the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2015
Eataly NYC confirmed that New York retail location has been victim of a security incident, hackers used a PoS malware to steal customers’s card data. The Italian food market Eataly has confirmed a data breach occurred earlier this year. According investigators the data breach could have exposed data related to payment cards over a four-month period. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2015
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
April 03, 2015
Researchers at Trend Micro spotted a 64-bit variant of NewPosThings PoS malware designed to steal payment card and other sensitive data. Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new strain of the NewPosThings point-of-sale (PoS) malware. The new variant of NewPosThings malware is a 64-bit version of NewPosThings, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware discovered by experts at Arbor Networks in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2015
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
February 17, 2015
Jefferson National Parks Association discloses POS breach at Gateway Arch stores caused by a malware infection of the payments systems. Jefferson National Parks Association announced on Friday about malware found on Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems deployed by two gift shops named Gateway Arch located in St. Louis. So far, it has been confirmed that most of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2015
Criminal crew behind Target and Home Depot data breaches is now targeting online parking reservation services, Book2park is the third victim since December. The hacking crew hackers behind the data breaches of the retail chain Target and Home Depot are now threatening parking lots according to the recent report published by the popular investigator Brian Krebs. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2014
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
November 06, 2014
Security experts at Fortinet detected a new variant of Backoff malicious code dubbed ROM, which is an improved version of the popular POS malware. A new strain of the Backoff point of sale malware has been detected in the wild by security experts at Fortinet, the new variant dubbed ROM (W32/Backoff.B!tr.spy) appears more fine-tuned. Like Backoff, ROM […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2014
Security firm Damballa issued the ‘State of Infections Report Q3 2014’ that highlights a 57% increase in infections of the notorious Backoff POS malware. Security experts at Damballa security firm detected a 57% increase in infections of the popular Backoff malware in the third quarter, the number of infections was jumped high from August to September and […]
