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New 'Dexter' malware strikes point-of-sale systems
- wtracy 14y agoGiven the huge number of small businesses that run a box that doubles as a POS and a general-purpose PC (used for email, web surfing, and such) I'm honestly surprised that we don't see this more often. A lot of mom and pop stores simply don't have any technical people on staff. I'd wager that a lot of these machines are running old, vulnerable versions of IE, and I'd wager that a lot more are operated by people who could be convinced to double-click an executable email attachment. Throw in the potentially high per-target payoff (compared to, say, using a machine to pump out spam) and if I were a black hat I'd be tripping over myself going after this target.