- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 13th, 2016
Vera Bradley Retail Stores Expose Payment Card Data After PoS Malware Infection
Retailer was tipped off about the malware by law enforcement
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 6th, 2016
FastPOS Malware Abuses Windows Mailslots to Steal POS Data
POS malware finds ingenious way to work with stolen data
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 29th, 2016
Two Determined Hackers Behind International Cybercrime Syndicate
Two hackers behind carding site Vendetta World
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 3rd, 2016
Hutton Hotel PoS Systems Compromised with Malware for Four Years
Malware infection goes unnoticed since September 2012
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 22nd, 2016
Eddie Bauer Confirms Card Breach Affecting All North American Stores
Investigation reveals PoS malware attacks at other companies
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 15th, 2016
PoS Malware Found at 20 HEI Hotels Properties
HEI Hotels announces breach of PoS systems
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 9th, 2016
Criminal Group Uses LogMeIn to Compromise PoS Systems with Malware
Crooks deploy new malware called PosCardStealer
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 4th, 2016
Kasidet PoS Credit Card Scraper Hides C&C Servers on Namecoin's Blockchain
Kasidet uses Namecoin's Dot-Bit service to hide C&C servers
- Cyber Espionage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 30th, 2016
Russian State Agencies Suffered More than 10 Million Cyber-Attacks in H1 2016
Many of them were simple DDoS attacks, but nation states were also involved in a large number of incidents
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 11th, 2016
Malware Blamed for Card Breach at Omni Hotels & Resorts
Malware infected PoS systems for around six months
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 28th, 2016
Malware Found on the PoS Systems at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hotel chain urges customers to watch out for card fraud
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 23rd, 2016
Researchers Hack Their Way into Punkey PoS Malware Backend
Criminals infected over 200 US businesses with PunkeyPOS
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 5th, 2016
New FastPOS Malware Focuses on Data Exfiltration Speed
Malware sold on an underground carding forum
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 30th, 2016
FrameworkPoS Malware Returns with New Attacks on SMBs in Chicago, Hawaii
Clues reveal campaign has been active since mid-2015
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 11th, 2016
Microsoft Patches Windows Zero-Day Leveraged in PoS Attacks
FireEye detects financially-motivated criminal group targeting PoS systems with new, never seen before malware
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 21st, 2016
FIN6 Group Stole Tens of Millions of Credit Card Records from PoS Systems
FIN6 was selling stolen credit card data on the Dark Web
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 19th, 2016
PoS Malware Steals Credit Card Numbers via DNS Requests
Malware uses clever trick to avoid detection