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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 stores in Denmark closed due to a cyberattack

7-Eleven stores in Denmark shut down today after a cyberattack disrupted stores' payment and checkout systems throughout the country.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 08, 2022
- 10:14 AM
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Hundreds of SPAR stores shut down, switch to cash after cyberattack

Approximately 330 SPAR shops in northern England face severe operational problems following a weekend cyberattack, forcing many stores to close or switch to cash-only payments.
- Bill Toulas
- December 06, 2021
- 12:22 PM
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Coop supermarket closes 500 stores after Kaseya ransomware attack

Swedish supermarket chain Coop has shut down approximately 500 stores after they were affected by an REvil ransomware attack targeting managed service providers through a supply-chain attack.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 03, 2021
- 11:15 AM
- 0
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
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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
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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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VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems

The point-of-sale (POS) systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants are under an increased and ongoing threat of being targeted by an attack coordinated by cybercrime groups according to a security alert published by VISA.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 12, 2019
- 07:45 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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1M+ Payment Card Details from South Korea Sold on the Dark Web

The number of stolen payment card details collected from South Korea has soared over the past two months more than one million records have been offered for sale on the dark web.
- Ionut Ilascu
- August 02, 2019
- 03:40 AM
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Carders Prefer Audio Skimmers over Less Efficient Flash Skimmers

Although web skimming attacks are rampant these days, the underground market for physical card skimming devices is thriving and changing at the rate of technological advancements.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 23, 2019
- 11:44 AM
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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
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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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