Who Got Hacked This Week? February 16 Edition

Point-of-Sale Malware Steals Credit Card Data

A new strain of malware has now been discovered that relies on a unique technique to steal payment card information from point-of-sale (PoS) systems.

Since the new POS malware relies upon User Datagram Protocol (UDP) DNS traffic for the exfiltration of credit card information, security researchers at Forcepoint Labs, who have uncovered the malware, dubbed it UDPoS.

Besides using ‘unusual’ DNS requests to exfiltrate data, the UDPoS malware disguises itself as an update from LogMeIn—a legitimate remote desktop control service used to manage computers and other systems remotely—in an attempt to avoid detection while transferring stolen payment card data pass firewalls and other security controls.