Alina Point-of-Sale Malware Spotted in Ongoing Campaign

A venerable point-of-sale POS malware called Alina that’s been around since 2012 is back in circulation, with a new trick for stealing credit- and debit-card data: Domain Name System DNS tunneling. DNS is the mechanism by which numeric IP addresses are linked to website names; DNS translates...

Credit Card Number Disclosure

Credit card numbers are used in applications where a user is able to purchase goods and/or services. A credit card number is a sensitive piece of information and should be handled as such. Cyber-criminals will use various methods to attempt to compromise credit card information that can then be...

New "PoSeidon" Point of Sale Malware Spotted in the Wild

A new and terribly awful breed of Point-of-Sale POS malware has been spotted in the wild by the security researchers at Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence & Research Group that the team says is more sophisticated and nasty than previously seen Point of Sale malware. The Point-of-Sale malware,...