Point-of-sale malware

[2] POS attacks may also include the use of various bits of hardware: dongles, trojan card readers, (wireless) data transmitters and receivers.

This strikes the point of sale system very fast and snatches the credit and debit card information and sends the data to the cyber criminal instantly.

The malware has the capability to exfiltrate the track data using two techniques such as key logger and memory scraper.

[9][10][11] PandaLabs discovered this malware and it infects the point of sale system to breach credit and debit card details.

[12] PunkeyPOS Malware uses two functions such as keylogger and RAM Scraper to steal information at Point of Sale Terminal.

[18] It scrapes the stolen credit and debit card and sends the data HTTP POST request with the help of Triple DES encryption.