Earlier this month, security researchers discovered a new PoS malware family, which they named “LusyPOS” after a reference in Russian underground forums. We detect this as TSPY_POSLUSY.A. In their analysis, they mentioned that it had some characteristics linked to the Dexter family of PoS malware. It also had behavior similar to the Chewbacca PoS malware (which…
Read MoreLast week, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) reported about a newly discovered malware, dubbed “Backoff”, which targets point-of-sale (PoS) systems. Similar to other PoS malware such as Dexter and Scraper, Backoff is also used to steal financial information for malicious purposes. Based on our analysis, when Backoff is executed, it copies itself into %Application Data%\OracleJava\javaw.exe and launches the…
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