Cybercriminals are getting more innovative and untraceable every day, which makes being protected with hacker insurance more vital to your business’ future. Forcepoint Labs recently discovered a new strain of malware, called UDPoS (User Datagram Protocol Point of Sale), that relies on the UDP DNS traffic to expose credit card information from POS systems.
This news comes just weeks after Jason’s Deli (a well known fast casual restaurant chain) was hacked by cybercriminals who exposed over 2 million payment cards were stolen across 14 states. Although cost hasn’t been disclosed, it has been proven that such attacks can result in business interruption, credit monitoring fees for all customers effected, harmful reputation (or loss of customers), computer forensic investigators, etc.
Currently there is no evidence that UDPos malware has stolen any payment card information, Forcepoint Labs explains that the malware is capable of doing so successfully.
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To read more about UDPoS, head over to The Hacker News.