Sometimes the little things can help cybercriminals separate their wares from the pack. It could be an uncommon feature in the malware itself, or it could just be a new way to market a familiar strategy. In unrelated reports Wednesday, cybersecurity companies detailed DMSniff, which takes a new approach to remaining stealthy as it steals point-of-sale (POS) information from consumers, as well as GlitchPOS, which steals credit-card information in a familiar way but comes with an instructional video from its creators. Threat intelligence company Flashpoint reports that DMSniff has quietly been in active use since 2016 thanks in part to a domain generation algorithm, which allows hackers to continue siphoning data from a web page even after police or researchers have taken hackers’ domain pages offline. Flashpoint notes that the use of such an algorithm is “rarely seen” in the smash-and-grab world of POS malware, where thieves typically distribute malware to as many sites as possible and […]
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