CSO: Top malware families turn point-of-sale into point-of-theft

For retailers, and shoppers, the most wonderful time of the year is also the most dangerous.

By Taylor Armerding
Dec 17, 2014

A wide range of choices for consumers is one of the things that make the American economy vibrant.

Unfortunately, a wide range of choices also exists in the world of cybercrime, where developers of malware focused on point-of-sale (POS) systems have created dozens of ways to steal payment card information from those same consumers.

Thanks to the catastrophic breach of retailer Target at this time last year, it is now widely known that the current - although now outgoing - payment card system is easily exploitable.

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