pwnpos
- First seen
- 2013-01-01 00:00:00
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:49:36
Targeted industries: retail-and-hospitality
Context
PwnPOS is a point-of-sale malware designed to capture and exfiltrate credit card data from infected systems. It primarily targets retail environments to harvest payment card information for financial theft.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Pwnpos_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- usa.visa.com — New Pos Malware Samples (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Pwnpos (report)
- twitter.com — 573109512145649664 (report)
- brimorlabsblog.com — And You Get Pos Malware Nameand You Get (report)
- Trend Micro — Pwnpos Old Undetected Pos Malware Still Causing Havoc (report)