Reply to post: Re: What OS & server platform was infected?

Did you swipe your card through one of these UPS Store tills? You may have been pwned

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Re: What OS & server platform was infected?

I've worked with (not for) a lot of retailers & F&B outlets, and talking to their POS vendors. The 5 POS vendors I've dealt with, which account for most of the worldwide market (4 out of 5 were global vendors) use Windows, with the only differences being the flavour of database (MSSQL, OpenSQL, MySQL, whatever).

This goes for the POS systems in the front-end as well as the back-end.

I even came across one restaurant where all 5 payment positions were using the public wifi, and could be accessed by just going to //[insert terminal position]/ and using default passwords, and found entire partitions as shared.

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