PoSeidon, brother of Zeus, forks up point of sale terminals Cisco has found a new and stupendously badass breed of point of sale (POS) malware it says is meaner than the code that tore through Target. The "PoSeidon" malware is built on the shoulders of infamous Zeus money sucking exploit kit and sports improvements to BlackPOS which plundered millions from Target payment terminals in …
If your going to paraphase from the Cisco diagnosis, at least get it right.
You don't install a keylogger to scan memory. The original report states:-
"The downloaded binary, FindStr, installs a keylogger and scans the memory of the PoS device for number sequences that could be credit card numbers."
It then goes on to describe the uses of the keylogger, to capture passwords, and Findstr to scan the memory to find credit card numbers.
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