Malware is created for a number of different purposes and often targeted at a specific industry or type of software. Such is the case for Point-Of-Sale systems, those systems that process transactions in a retail environment are highly sought after by attackers as they can be a gold mine for credit card data. Tenable's products can be used to detect if such malware, for example the recently discovered Trojan.POSRAM (aka "The BlackPOS malware" as references by the Kreb's on Security Blog) in the following ways:
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