Researchers find new PoS malware written in VBScript

In the wake of a large-scale attack on point-of-sale (PoS) systems at retailer Target, new malware designed to steal payment card data from the sales systems was released earlier this month. Security researchers from cybercrime intelligence firm IntelCrawler identified a PoS RAM (random access memory) scraping program dubbed Decebal that they believe was released on Jan. 3. The release shows that cybercriminals are increasingly interested in launching this type of attack. The malware is written ...