Security Researchers at Trustwave have uncovered a new point-of-sale (PoS) malware threat dubbed ‘Punkey’ during an investigation led by the US Secret Service. The new malicious program ‘Punkey’ has at least three…
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US-CERT: Retailers – beware of virtually undetectable Backoff PoS malware
Backoff and its variants with detection rate of law-to-zero, have infected in nearly 600 businesses in the past month.
Symantec: Retail POS at increased attack risk after Windows XP EOL
Symantec has warned that retail point-of-sale (POS) systems, which run on Windows XP embedded or even Windows XP professional in some instances are at an increased risk of attacks after the operating…