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A variant of the Angler Exploit Kit used to infect PoS Systems

Experts at Trend Micro discovered that cyber criminals are exploiting the popular Angler Exploit kit to find and infect PoS systems. The sophisticated Angler exploit kit is used to target in sophisticated attacks the point-of-sale (PoS) systems, the specific use represents a novelty in the cyber criminal ecosystem. The infection chain exploited two Adobe Flash vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-0336) Once triggered the flaws the TROJ_RECOLOAD.A malware compromise the target. This utilises the fileless installation capability of the Angler. Exploit Kit to avoid detection”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/39008/cyber-crime/angler-exploit-kit-infect-pos.html

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