'Most complex malware ever': Security experts smash system that stole cash from millions

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https://www.rt.com/news/323641-modpos-complex-cash-malware/

RT.com
27 Nov, 2015

Security experts have exposed a cash register malware of previously unseen 
complexity and secretiveness. It is unknown who created the virus and 
profited from it, but it has been stealing personal data for years, 
affecting millions of people.

Malware, or ‘malicious software’, is software that is used to disrupt 
computer systems or gather secret or sensitive information from them.

The malware in question, dubbed ModPOS (for Modular Point Of Sale), has 
been exposed by security experts from cyber intel firm iSight, who say 
they’ve seen nothing like it in eight years of exploring malicious 
point-of-sale (POS) software.

It took three weeks of constant work for the researchers to perform 
reverse engineering of the ‘scumware’, compared to the no more than half 
an hour usually needed to crack most POS malware.

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