Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2019
The Catch Hospitality Group has suffered a malware attack, a point-of-sale malware has infected systems (POS) at several restaurants of the chain.The Catch Hospitality Group has suffered a malware attack, a point-of-sale malware has infected systems (POS) at several restaurants of the chain. Catch Hospitality Group announced that a PoS malware has infected its payment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2019
After two years of silence, FIN8 group is back and carried out a new campaign against the hotel-entertainment industry employing the ShellTea/PunchBuggy backdoor. Two years later after the last report, FIN8 group is back and carried out a new campaign against the hotel-entertainment industry using an improved version of the ShellTea/PunchBuggy backdoor. The last time […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2019
Checkers and Rally’s, one of the largest chains of double drive-thru restaurants in the United States, disclosed a credit card breach. “We recently became aware of a data security issue involving malware at certain Checkers and Rally’s locations.” reads a breach notice published by the company. “After discovering the issue, we quickly engaged leading data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2019
A new piece of PoS malware appeared in the threat landscape, the malicious code dubbed GlitchPOS has been found on a crimeware forum. The GlitchPOS malware is able to steal credit card numbers (Track1 and Track2) from the memory of the infected system, it uses a regular expression to perform this task. The malicious code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2019
Security experts at Morphisec observed a wave of attacks against point-of-sale (PoS) thin clients using card data scraping malware and the Cobalt Strike beacon. Over the past 8-10 weeks, security experts at Morphisec observed multiple sophisticated attacks targeting PoS thin clients worldwide. Most of the indicators collected by the experts point to the FIN6 hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2018
Brinker International warns customers who recently paid with their payment card at a Chili’s restaurant may have had their financial data stolen by crooks. On May 11, Brinker International company, which operates more than 1,600 Chili’s and Maggiano’s restaurants across 31 countries worldwide, announced to have suffered a data breach. “This notice is to make you […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2018
Security experts at Flashpoint confirmed the availability online for the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware since March. The researchers found evidence that the threat has been around since at least late 2014. TreasureHunt was first discovered by researchers at the SANS Institute who noticed the malware generating mutex names to evade detection. TreasureHunt enumerates the processes running on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2018
Researchers presented findings on a new strain of point-of-sale malware, dubbed PinkKite, that was spotted by security experts at Kroll Cyber Security. A new strain of point-of-sale malware, dubbed PinkKite, was spotted by security experts at Kroll Cyber Security. PinkKite was first discovered in 2017 while the experts were instigating into a large POS malware campaign. PinkKite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2018
RMH Franchise Holdings revealed on Friday afternoon that PoS systems at the Applebee ’s restaurants were infected with a PoS malware. Another week another data breach, RMH Franchise Holdings revealed last week that PoS systems at the Applebee’s restaurants were infected with malware. The PoS malware was used to collect names, payment card numbers, expiration dates, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
A new PoS malware dubbed UDPoS appeared in the threat landscape and implements a novel and hard to detect technique to steal credit card data from infected systems. The UDPoS malware was spotted by researchers from ForcePoint Labs, it relies upon User Datagram Protocol (UDP) DNS traffic for data exfiltration instead of HTTP that is the protocol used by […]
