Cybercriminals usually add features to stay on top of targets, but these have removed some to dupe AV software.
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By Danny Palmer | March 8, 2017
While threats like ransomware might have been making more headlines lately, point of sales (POS) malware is still very much active - mainly targeting retailers and hotel chains, while smaller businesses remain a prime target as they're likely to have even less secure systems.
One of the earliest forms of this type of malware was RawPOS, which has been in operation since 2008. Despite being almost a decade old, RawPOS is still going strong and cybersecurity researchers at Cylance have discovered a new version of it which it said has remained undetected by an unnamed 'legacy antivirus vendor' for over a month.
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One of the oldest forms of POS malware has been tweaked to avoid detection
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