Cisco uncovers new credit card-stealing malware

Cisco has discovered a new malware threat against Point-of-Sale (PoS) terminals that has the potential to pilfer credit card details. The threat appears to be a lot more damaging than the malware that infected Target.The new malware family, which Cisco's Security Solutions team has nicknamed PoSeidon, scrapes the memory on PoS systems to try and grab credit card data that it then sends to its servers (primarily using Russian .ru domains) before they are harvested and eventually sold on.PoSeidon