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Virus that steals debit card info on the prowl

Last Updated 27 July 2014, 20:33 IST

Debit and credit card owners in the country have been alerted by cyber security sleuths against the damaging activities of a virus which attacks Point of Sale (POS) business counters to steal confidential data like card number and passwords.

The virus, of the deadly Trojan/Botnet family, is prowling in the domestic online media and has been identified as “BrutPOS” by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).CERT-In is the nodal national agency to combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security-related defences of the Indian Internet domain.

“It has been reported that malware variants targeting Point of sale (POS) systems, dubbed “BrutPOS”, are spreading. BrutPOS mainly targets windows-based system by leveraging web as the main infection vector apart from being downloaded by other malware families,” the latest advisory by the agency said.

The advisory added that once the system is infected with the malware, it communicates with its command and control servers to update its status and receive commands.

Successful RDP brute force attack allows an attacker to execute another malware in the compromised system that steals payment cards data including card holder’s name, account number expiration data, CVV code and other information from POS systems.

The virus also has tendencies to steal system information such as Operating System details, system configuration etc, the advisory said. Once the secret data of a credit or debit card is stolen, it can be prone to a hacking or phishing attempts on the virtual currency. 

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(Published 27 July 2014, 20:33 IST)

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