Although mobile payment has become more and more popular, POS devices based on credit cards and bank cards are still the mainstream payment devices, and POS machines have also become targets for hackers. According to the latest report from PCWorld, the US technology news website, security experts have recently discovered a new type of malicious program for POS. Although the malicious program is still being developed, it has caused the theft of credit card data of many retailers.
The new POS program called Getmypass, according to a security expert, Nick Hoffman, is similar to other traditional memory-crawling malware in that it collects unencrypted credit cards from POS systems. data.
It is reported that this malicious program is related to the theft of credit card data of many retailers in the United States, including Target, NeimanMarcus and so on. Security experts also said that only a more secure encryption of the POS is needed, which can block malicious programs from stealing credit card data.
The above experts said that this malicious program is still under development, and does not have more sophisticated remote command transmission and manipulation capabilities, that is, hackers can not send new attack instructions to malicious programs.
Although technically not complicated enough, Hoffman said that this malicious program has been able to escape the killing of 55 anti-virus software on the market.
Security company Trend Micro also analyzed this POS malware, which the company says works in a similar way to the popular POS memory crawling program BlackPOS.
Like other POS malicious programs, Getmypass can search for credit card data in the POS system and validate the credit card account. However, it lacks some complex capabilities, such as recording user's keyboard strokes, collecting password information, and sending stolen data to remote systems outside of local files. (Dawn)
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