Malware News Oh, Joy! Source Code of TreasureHunter PoS Malware Leaks Online

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On the malware scene, there is no clearer sign of trends to come than the leaking of a malware family's source code.

Based on this assumption, we can now expect an influx of Point-of-Sale malware in the coming months after the release of the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum in March, this year.

Security researchers from Flashpoint, the ones who spotted the leaked source code, confirmed its validity.

"The source code is consistent with the various samples that have been seen in the wild over the last few years," said Flashpoint Director of Research Vitali Kremez.

TreasureHunter leak bound to spawn new threats

With the source code out in the open, TreasureHunter is bound to spawn a wave of new PoS malware strains, similarly to how the source code leak of the Zeus (Windows banking trojan) BankBot (Android banking trojan), Alina (PoS malware), Tsunami (Linux/IoT DDoS and botnet malware) and Mirai (Linux/IoT DDoS and botnet malware) spawned tens of copycats in the past years.

While the reasons of why the TreasureHunter source code leak have not been made clear, the malware itself is quite old, being first spotted back in 2014.

It may be possible that the people behind this threat are working on a newer and revamped version, and decided to dump their old work in the process.
 

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