Soraya Malware Packs Form Grabbing, Memory Scraping Functionality

Malware capable of infecting point-of-sale devices once was a novelty, but it’s quickly becoming more common. Researchers at Arbor Networks have unearthed a new strain of PoS malware called Soraya that can scrape memory and has the ability to intercept information sent from Web forms, a specialty...

Russian underground vSkimmer Botnet targeting payment world

A new botnet emerged from underground and is menacing payment world, the cyber threat dubbed vSkimmer come from Russia according revelation of McAfee security firm. The security expert Chintan Shah wrote on a blog post that during monitoring of Russian underground forum found a discussion about a...

What “Dexter Malware” tells us about the future of POS security (It might just be P2PE)

The recently announced Dexter malware is targeting POS systems and once in, it collects sensitive credit card data and surreptitiously sends it off to attackers. While the details of this particular attack are not yet available, this is not the first time this general approach has been exploited...