World's most complex cash register malware plunders millions in US

  • 24 November 2015
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'ModPos' kernel monster threatens haul during festive shopping blitz

 
                                    


 
24 Nov 2015 at 05:13, Darren Pauli
 
The world's most complex sales till malware has been discovered ... after it ripped millions of bank cards from US retailers on the eve of post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzies.
 
The ModPOS malware has pilfered "multiple millions" of debit and credit cards from the unnamed but large retail companies incurring millions of dollars in damages.
 
The attackers have operated in a low-key, ultra professional manner since late 2013 and has only come to light after weeks of painstaking reverse-engineering efforts by malware experts.
 
They have kept mum, too. Cybercrime forums are entirely devoid of references to the malware.
 
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November 24, 2015  By Pierluigi Paganini
 
“This is POS [point-of-sale] malware on steroids,” “We have been examining POS malware forever, for at least the last eight years and we have never seen the level of sophistication in terms of development …[engineers say] it is the most sophisticated framework they have ever put their hands on.” Said iSight Partners senior director Steve Ward.
 
                     


 
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