- 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
- Finances
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 6th, 2016
New PayPal-MasterCard Partnership Simplifies In-Store Payments
In the near future, users will be able to use their PayPal accounts inside stores instead of their credit cards
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 2nd, 2016
Lightspeed PoS Vendor Announces Server Breach
Company says client encrypted passwords are safe
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 9th, 2016
Criminal Group Uses LogMeIn to Compromise PoS Systems with Malware
Crooks deploy new malware called PosCardStealer
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 8th, 2016
Oracle MICROS Security Breach Has Ties to Carbanak Gang
Oracle resets all user passwords for MICROS support portal
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 6th, 2016
Stealing Credit Card Details from PoS Systems and EMV Cards Just Got Easier
Crooks can trick users into handing over their PIN codes
- 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
- 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
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 19th, 2016
PoS Malware Steals Credit Card Numbers via DNS Requests
Malware uses clever trick to avoid detection
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 29th, 2016
TreasureHunt PoS Malware Linked to Illegal Credit Card Sharing Forum
BearsInc group behind this new PoS malware threat
- Data Breaches
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 9th, 2016
Rosen Hotel Chain Had a PoS Malware Infection for 17 Months
Malware stole info on customer credit card data