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Researchers shed light on a newly discovered family of point of sale malware that is extremely small in size and adept at siphoning credit card numbers from POS endpoints.

Malware found on POS systems at Applebee's restaurants potentially stole customer credit card information.

Researchers have discovered a new Point of Sale (POS) malware. They cannot tell yet whether it is new code still being developed, or already used -- complete with coding errors -- in an undetected...

Oracle has issued a fix, but many Micros systems could still be vulnerable.

A vulnerability Oracle addressed in the MICROS Point-of-Sale (PoS) terminals with the January 2018 Critical Patch Update could impact more than 300,000 payment systems worldwide. read more

Oracle has released a security patch update to address a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability that affects its MICROS point-of-sale (POS) business solutions for the hospitality industry....

Retailer Confirms US Payment Card Data Breach; International Probe ContinuesApparel retailer Forever 21 says point-of-sale systems in some stores were infected by malware for up to seven months,...

Fashion retailer updates disclosure on 2017 attack, says hackers targeted point-of-sale terminals that used no encryption.

Two point of sale (POS) malware families have been abusing thousands of publicly accessible ElasticSearch nodes for command and control (C&C) purposes, Kromtech security researchers warn. read more

Security researchers have discovered over 4,000 Elasticsearch servers compromised to distribute and control PoS malware. 99 percent of them are hosted by Amazon. What is Elasticsearch?...