POS News | US Computer Emergency Readiness Team Alert For quite some time, cyber criminals have been targeting consumer data entered in POS systems. In the past criminals attach a physical device to a POS to collect card data (skimming). Now, cyber criminals are delivering malware which acquires card data as it passes through a POS system, eventually exfiltrating desired data back to the bad-guys. Once cyber-criminals such data, it is often trafficked to other suspects who use the data to create fraudulent credit and debit cards. POS systems often are enabled to access the internet & email services. Therefore malicious links or attachments in emails as well as malicious websites can be accessed & malware may subsequently be downloaded by an end user of a POS system unknowingly. A recent & urgent alert from US-CERT outlines the risks & steps to take to mitigate the return on investment for criminals to compromise your POS system... which is much higher for a criminal to infect one POS system that will yield card data from multiple consumers. Learn More & Read The Full Alert | 1.usa.gov/1eZ4Mbt
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:17:54 +0000
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