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Two North American hospitality merchants hacked in May and June

Posted on October 4, 2020 by Dissent

Catalin CImpanu reports:

In a security alert published on Thursday, US payments processor Visa revealed that two North American hospitality merchants were hacked and had their system infected with point-of-sale (POS) malware earlier this year.

[…]

Visa published on Thursday a security alert [PDF] with a description of the two security breaches and the malware used in the attacks in order to help other companies in the hospitality sector scan their networks for indicators of compromise.

Read more on ZDNet.


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