BlackPOS
Aliases: Kaptoxa, MMon, POSWDS, Reedum
- Malware type
- credential-stealer
- Family
- Malware family
- Last IoC activity
- 2026-04-27 00:22:25
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:52:13
Targeted industries: retail-and-hospitality
Context
BlackPOS infects computers running on Windows that have credit card readers connected to them and are part of a POS system. POS system computers can be easily infected if they do not have the most up to date operating systems and antivirus programs to prevent security breaches or if the computer database systems have weak administration login credentials.
Detection coverage
- 2 YARA rules
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Mmon_Auto (yara-rule)
- MALPEDIA_Win_Blackpos_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- web.archive.org — Globalthreatintelreport (report)
- Trend Micro — Operation Black Atlas Endangers In Store Card Payments And Smbs Worldwide Switches Between Blackpos And Other Tools (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Blackpos (report)
- usa.visa.com — New Pos Malware Samples (report)
- Trend Micro — New Blackpos Malware Emerges In The Wild Targets Retail Accounts (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Mmon (report)
- reversing.fun — Mmon (report)