The Carbanak cybercrime gang, best known for allegedly stealing $1 billion from financial institutions worldwide, have shifted strategy and are targeting the hospitality and restaurant industries with new techniques and malware.
According to security researchers at Trustwave, over the last several weeks Carbanak has been targeting hospitality call centers with elaborate ploys to get customer service representatives to accept and download emails with malicious macro-laced documents. The target is credit card data scraped from the memory of point-of-sale systems.
