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The group behind the FastPOS malware has updated their trojan with a new data exfiltration mechanism that abuses the Windows Mailslots mechanism to store data before exfiltration from infected systems. This new version of POS (Point Of Sale) malware came to light this past summer, in June, when Trend Micro security researchers discovered ads for it on underground carding forums. FastPOS just received its annual update Analysis of the malware showed a new POS malware family that focused on speed and sacrificed stealth, an opposite approach to how most POS malware operates today. Trend Micro continued its analysis of this malware after the initial detection and discovered traces of FastPOS activity dating back to March 2015. Further, the company discovered that the FastPOS operator updates his malware every September, j... ...