LockPoS malware adopts injection technique to evade detection
“In the case of Spectre, it is a class of attack, not a specific vulnerability… Exploits are based on the side effects of speculative execution, specifically branch prediction. This type of exploit will be tailored and continue to morph and change making patching extremely difficult,” Carr said.
LockPoS, a point-of-sale (PoS) malware that steals credit card data, has a new trick for stealthy malware injection that appears to be a variant of that used by Flokibot.
Cyberbit researchers: “The LockPoS Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware has been leveraging a new code injection technique to compromise systems”