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Malware

New Retail PoS Malware Discovered

A new malware family targeting point-of-sale (PoS) systems, is infecting machines in order to scrape [payment card iinformation from memory. The malware, dubbed PoSeidon, was initially spotted by researchers from Cisco’s Security Solutions (CSS) team. PoSeidon, like most point-of-sale Trojans, scans the RAM of infected terminals for unencrypted strings that match credit card information. End-to-end encryption technology would protect payment card data from these sorts of attacks, but few PoS terminals have this capability right now. Cisco’s researchers say that PoSeidon is comprised of a keylogger, a loader and a memory scraper that also has keylogging functionality. As one would expect, the keylogger is designed to steal credentials for the LogMeIn remote access application. It deletes encrypted LogMeIn passwords and

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