Tag Archives: Point of sale

Experts have disclosed a new category of malware, labeled “FastPOS,” that has the ability to quickly extract stolen credit card details. Different from most POS malware, FastPOS concentrates on copying harvested data as quickly as possible to its command and control (C&C) servers, in comparison to collecting …

Home Depot verified yesterday that the breach of their systems put roughly 56 million unique payment cards in jeopardy considerably more in comparison to the Target data breach. The retailer unveiled on Sept. 2 that hackers had been on its systems since April.  The Target …

Marriott and Renaissance hotels might have had their card information affected following a new development on Monday of a suspected point-of-sale attack. White Lodging Services, a hotel administration organization, cautioned within a report, it suspects point-of-sale systems at restaurants and lounges on 14 of their …

RSA’s security experts discovered that through this operation, attackers utilized the ChewBacca Trojan to grab Track 1 and Track 2 info from payment cards swiped through infected PoS systems going back to Oct. 25, 2013. ChewBacca  isn’t new, and it’s also not solely employed to …

Now Reuters is reporting that cyber intelligence firm IntelCrawler has uncovered proof linking no less than six ongoing schemes at U.S. merchants with credit card processing systems affected by a similar form of malicious software. The news company’s statement didn’t identify the other retailers experiencing the …