Latest Point of Sale news

UK bakery Greggs is latest victim of recent POS system outages

UK bakery chain Greggs is the latest victim of recent point of sale system outages that forced store closures at large retail chains over the past few weeks.
- Bill Toulas
- March 20, 2024
- 11:27 AM
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McDonald's IT systems outage impacts restaurants worldwide

McDonald's restaurants are suffering global IT outages that prevent employees from taking orders and accepting payments, causing some stores to close for the day.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 15, 2024
- 10:42 AM
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NCR suffers Aloha POS outage after BlackCat ransomware attack

NCR is suffering an outage on its Aloha point of sale platform after being hit by an ransomware attack claimed by the BlackCat/ALPHV gang.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 15, 2023
- 02:26 PM
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7-Eleven Denmark confirms ransomware attack behind store closures

7-Eleven Denmark has confirmed that a ransomware attack was behind the closure of 175 stores in the country on Monday.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 10, 2022
- 06:21 PM
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Windows POS malware uses DNS to smuggle stolen credit cards

A Windows Point-of-Sale (POS) malware has been discovered using the DNS protocol to smuggle stolen credit cards to a remote server under attacker's control.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 01, 2020
- 03:38 PM
- 0
REvil ransomware scans victim's network for Point of Sale systems

REvil ransomware operators have been observed while scanning one of their victim's network for Point of Sale (PoS) servers by researchers with Symantec's Threat Intelligence team.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 23, 2020
- 11:38 AM
- 0
U.S. Store Chain Rutter’s Hit by Credit Card Stealing Malware

Rutter's, a U.S. convenience store, fast food restaurant, and gas station chain owner, has disclosed today that 71 locations were infected with a point-of-sale (POS) malware that was used by attackers to steal customers' credit card information.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 13, 2020
- 07:08 PM
- 0
Popular U.S. Restaurant Owner Hit by Credit Card Stealing Malware

Landry's, a U.S. restaurant chain and property owner has disclosed that they were infected with a point-of-sale (POS) malware that allowed attackers to steal customer's credit card information.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 02, 2020
- 08:15 AM
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One Day, Three Credit Card Data Breach Notifications

On the same day this week, two restaurants and a convenience store, all with locations across the U.S., disclosed security breach incidents that may have enabled attackers to steal customer payment card data.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 22, 2019
- 02:25 PM
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Four U.S. Food Chains Disclose Payment Card Theft via PoS Malware

Hackers caused havoc at four restaurant chains in the U.S. over the summer after compromising their payment systems with malware that stole customers' payment card information.
- Ionut Ilascu
- October 03, 2019
- 08:15 PM
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DMSniff Point-of-Sale Malware Silently Attacked SMBs For Years

A Point-of-Sale (POS) malware which uses a domain generation algorithm to create command-and-control domains on the fly was detected in attacks against small and medium-sized businesses for the past four years according to a team of security researchers from Flashpoint.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 13, 2019
- 02:21 PM
- 0
Cards Used at 137 Restaurants Exposed by Point-of-Sale Breach

North Country Business Products point-of-sale and security solutions provider with roughly 6500 customers around the Midwest has disclosed a data breach which led to the exposure of payment information for clients who used their credit and debit cards at 137 restaurants.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 19, 2019
- 06:10 PM
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Huddle House Fast Food Chain Suffers Data Breach in POS System

Fast food restaurant chain Huddle House has disclosed that they were affected by a data breach in the point of sale system at some locations that allowed attackers to steal payment information.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 05, 2019
- 07:45 AM
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Booz Allen Hamilton Researchers Detail New RtPOS Point-of-Sale Malware

Security researchers from Booz Allen Hamilton have spotted a previously unseen and undocumented malware strain that targets point-of-sale (POS) systems.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 28, 2018
- 12:15 AM
- 0
Card Breach Announced at Chili’s Restaurant Chain

Malware has harvested payment card details from some Chili's restaurants, Brinker International, the company behind the restaurant chain announced on Friday.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 13, 2018
- 03:50 PM
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Oh, Joy! Source Code of TreasureHunter PoS Malware Leaks Online

On the malware scene, there is no clearer sign of trends to come than the leaking of a malware family's source code. Based on this assumption, we can now expect an influx of Point-of-Sale malware in the coming months after the release of the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 10, 2018
- 11:00 AM
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PoS Malware Steals Credit Card Data via DNS Requests

Malware hunters from US security firm Forcepoint have stumbled across a new strain of Point of Sale (PoS) malware, the second such type of PoS malware that hides stolen credit/debit card information inside DNS requests.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- February 09, 2018
- 01:00 AM
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Security Bug Affects Over 300,000 Oracle POS Systems

Hackers have a new security flaw in their arsenal they can exploit to install POS malware on Oracle Micros point-of-sale systems.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 31, 2018
- 08:30 AM
- 0
Watch Someone Buy a Laptop for $1 Thanks to a Severe POS Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the SAP POS Xpress Server allows attackers to alter configuration files for SAP Point-of-Sale systems, alter prices, and collect payment card data and send it to one of their servers.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 25, 2017
- 05:06 AM
- 0
Millennium Hotels & Resorts Warns of Potential POS Breach at 14 Locations

Hospitality chain Millennium Hotels & Resorts North America is warning customers that malware may have affected food and beverage point-of-sale (POS) systems at 14 of its locations. MHR first learned about a possible malware infection, which is believed to have occurred in early March 2016, from the United States Secret Service.
- David Bisson
- August 26, 2016
- 12:30 PM
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