POS malware built to target ticketing systems and information kiosks

Asked By Juan M Flora 90 points N/A Posted on - 12/13/2014

What is the risk caused by the POS malware which is recently in the news? The malware can supposedly act as a an advanced backdoor.what is a a backdoor in computing and why is it created?What can the POS malware affect? Why are ticketing systems and kiosks in public places,particularly at risk from this malware?

 

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Answered By Shelock kate 0 points N/A #188960

POS malware built to target ticketing systems and information kiosks

when the information is first read from the card(money cards)

at kiosks, it can be found inside the PoS device’s memory in

unencrypted form. PoS malware exploit this by capturing the

payment card information directly from the memory; this behavior

is known as “RAM scraping.”The main malware that attack the

POS devices are ALINA, vSkimmer, Dexter, FYSNA. A backdoor is a 

technique in which a system's security checks can be avoided and 

gain an access over the computer data and databases. It is also 

known as trapdoor. Generally ticketing systems and kiosks are at

risks because there is a lot of scope for using POS devices here

atm cards have an enormous use here.

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