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Point of sale botnets
2013-12-06 17:28:23.16901+01 by
Dan Lyke
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So remember when VeriFone was warning us off from the eeeevil Square because the dedicated hardware kept your credit card info safer?
Credit card fraud comes of age with first known point-of-sale botnet. Yeah, not content with skimmers, the fraudsters have gone straight to infecting the hardware.
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