malware

Fraud Botnet Controls Sales Terminals

• Albert Zenkoff
• 2013-12-05
• Society, botnet, credit card, Dexter, fraud, malware, point of sales, POS, security, StarDust

Ah, the humanity. ArsTechnica reports that researchers came across a proper botnet that controls 31 Point Of Sales (POS) servers with an unknown number of actual sales terminals connected to them. The botnet is operational, i.e., it is running and collecting the credit card data. The data is transmitted during idle times in an encrypted ...