PoS malware also targeting ticket vending machines and electronic kiosks

Cybercriminals are using malware designed to steal payment card information from point-of-sale systems to also infect ticket vending machines and electronic kiosks.

Security researchers from cybercrime intelligence firm IntelCrawler found a new malware program called d4re|dev1| — hacker spelling for daredevil — that is capable of stealing information from multiple PoS systems including QuickBooks Point of Sale Multi-Store, OSIPOS Retail Management System, Harmony WinPOS and Figure Gemini POS.

“This new strain of malware, which is hitting Mass Transit Systems, acts as an advanced backdoor with remote administration, having RAM scrapping and keylogging features,” the IntelCrawler researchers said Wednesday in a blog post.

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