SC Magazine
A new variant of malware has been discovered that uses DNS to evade antivirus measures, security researchers have warned. Dubbed Multigrain, the malware is a variant of the NewPoSThings family of malware. It infects Windows processes that process credit card data and collects financial information before sending it off to a C&C server.Alex Cruz Farmer, our vice president of cloud told SCMagazineUK.com that the key here is not so much that anti-virus is not picking up the issue. “The question is why is a Point of Sale device able to access websites and receive DNS responses outside of the protected domain?” To read the full article, please click here.
