There has been a proliferation of malware specifically designed to extract payment card information from Point-of-Sale (POS) systems over the last two years. In 2015, there have already been a variety of new POS malware identified including a new Alina variant, LogPOS, FighterPOS and Punkey. During our research into a widespread spam campaign, we discovered yet another POS malware that we’ve named NitlovePOS. The NitlovePOS malware can capture and ex-filtrate track one and track two payment card data by scanning the running processes of a compromised machine. It then sends this data to a webserver using SSL.
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