- Dec 30, 2012
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The malware strain targets Oracle's MICROS retail platform which is used in 330,000 customer sites worldwide.
Researchers have discovered MalumPoS, a new point-of-sale malware designed to steal credit card data from hotels and other US businesses.
Trend Micro's Kenney Lu described the security firm's discovery in a blog post last week. The point-of-sale (POS) malware targets sales systems in hotels and other industries in the United States in order to scrape valuable credit card data which can then be used to create cloned cards, empty victim bank accounts or be sold on the black market.
MalumPoS is designed to collect data from POS machines running on Oracle MICROS, a payment system used by restaurants, hotels, the retail sector and the enterprise -- and is used in approximately 333,000 customer sites worldwide.
"If successfully deployed by a threat actor, this PoS RAM scraper could put several high-profile US-based companies and their customers at risk," Trend Micro says.
Further reading
Researchers have discovered MalumPoS, a new point-of-sale malware designed to steal credit card data from hotels and other US businesses.
Trend Micro's Kenney Lu described the security firm's discovery in a blog post last week. The point-of-sale (POS) malware targets sales systems in hotels and other industries in the United States in order to scrape valuable credit card data which can then be used to create cloned cards, empty victim bank accounts or be sold on the black market.
MalumPoS is designed to collect data from POS machines running on Oracle MICROS, a payment system used by restaurants, hotels, the retail sector and the enterprise -- and is used in approximately 333,000 customer sites worldwide.
"If successfully deployed by a threat actor, this PoS RAM scraper could put several high-profile US-based companies and their customers at risk," Trend Micro says.
Further reading
