CenterPOS (also known as "Cerebrus") is a point of sale (POS) malware discovered Cyber Security Experts.
The 2.0 variant of CenterPOS malware added some more effective features, such as the addition of a configuration file for storing information in its command and control server.
[4] CenterPOS has been used to target retailers in order to illegally obtain payment card information using a memory scraper.
If the process meets the criteria list, the malware will search all memory regions within the process, searching for credit card data with regular expressions in the regular expression list.
[10] Then the memory scraped data is sent to the operator of the malware through a separate HTTP POST request.