A new PoS malware named Pro PoS Solution is available for purchase on underground forums.
The Christmas season has arrived, and just like all of us, criminals also found a new gift under their Christmas tree, a new powerful PoS malware.
According to the threat intelligence company InfoArmor, a new ROS malware named Rrο PοS is available for purchase on underground forums and its creators are likely hackers from Eastern Europe.
The creators of Pro PoS Solution designed their malware to infect major operating systems used by retail companies, including newer operating systems.
According to InfoArmor, criminals have already begun using Pro PoS Solution to target PoS systems used by retailers and SMBs in the United States and Canada.
The Pro PoS is only 76KB and «φορά» rootkit features as well as mechanisms to evade detection by antivirus. The experts at InfoArmor explain that it incorporates a polymorphic engine that allows the creation of a different signature for each sample of malicious software.
On November 27, the experts at InfoArmor observed a remarkable increase in the price of the Rrο PοS Solution which can become yours for $2.600 dollars with a six-month ‘contract’.
The Ro PoS supports TOR to hide its Command and Control (C&C) servers.
As everything shows, the underground market has turned its growing interest to PoS malware, and in the last weeks a significant number of new threats have been identified, such as Cherry Picker and ModPoS.
