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Brazilian Prilex Hackers Resurfaced With Sophisticated Point-of-Sale Malware

A Brazilian threat actor known as Prilex has resurfaced after a year-long operational hiatus with an advanced and complex malware to steal money by means of fraudulent transactions. “The Prilex group has shown a high level of knowledge about credit and debit card transactions, and how software used for payment processing works,” Kaspersky researchers said. […]

Millions of HP laptops, points of sale machines and servers affected by 16 critical vulnerabilities

A report by cybersecurity firm Binarly points to the detection of 16 critical vulnerabilities in various implementations of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), present in multiple HP enterprise devices. According to the researchers, threat actors can exploit these flaws to implant firmware capable of evading UEFI Secure Boot, Intel Boot Guard, and virtualization-based security measures. […]

GlitchPOS, the malware that steals credit card numbers at points of sales

Cybersecurity experts, in association with an ethical hacker from the International Institute of Cyber Security reported the emergence of a new malware variant designed to intercept payment card numbers; the malware has been circulating through some malicious hacker forums. This malware, known as GlitchPOS, is available for purchase on some hacking forums hosted on dark […]

Upgraded TrickBot Malware Attack Point-of-Sale Machines & Services to Steal Credit/Debit card Data

Trickbot, a Banking Trojan that involved various cyber attacks especially target the banking networks, now distributing to target the POS services and machines to steal credit cards and ATM cards bank related sensitive data. Recently TrickBot’s malicious activities on various browsers and apps such as  Microsoft Outlook, Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge to Steal Password & […]

Vulnerabilities in Square and PayPal affect mobile points of sale

There are bugs in lots of points of sale that compromise mobile payment systems Several vulnerabilities in the mobile point of sale devices (mPOS) software have been disclosed. These services are used in mobile card readers that have emerged as an alternative payment controller and less expensive option for small and medium-sized business. Researchers in enterprise network security have […]

Point-of-Sale Malware Steals Driver’s License Information

Malware specialized in infecting Point of Sale (PoS) software has gained the ability to search and steal driver’s license information, according to a report published by US cyber-security firm Trend Micro. The collection of driver’s license information surprised researchers, who haven’t spotted such behavior in a PoS malware family until now. Even more surprising was […]

New Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign hits 20 Hotels in US

New Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign hits Twenty US Hotels Making Customers’ Financial Data Vulnerable Believe it or not, if you have stayed at any of the below listed 20 hotels in the United States, your financial data might be at severe risk of hacking. That’s because the 20 US-based hotels that are being operated by HEI […]

Oracle-owned point-of-sale service suffers from malware attack

A Russian organized cybercrime group known for hacking into banks and retailers appears to have breached hundreds of computer systems at software giant Oracle Corp., KrebsOnSecurity has learned. More alarmingly, the attackers have compromised a customer support portal for companies using Oracle’s MICROS point-of-sale credit card payment systems. Asked this weekend for comment on rumors of a large data breach […]

Point-of-sale Systems Targeted By New PoSeidon Malware

Beware all you retailers, a new Trojan program dubbed as PoSeidon targets point-of-sale or PoS terminals and can potentially steal payment card data for abusing it later. According to Cisco Security Solutions research team, this new malware can perform memory scraping, which means it can scan RAM of all the compromised terminals to locate encrypted […]