MALWARE FAMILY

BlackPOS

Internal ID: win.blackpos

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

BlackPOS infects computers running on Windows that have credit card readers connected to them and are part of a POS system. POS system computers can be easily infected if they do not have the most up to date operating systems and antivirus programs to prevent security breaches or if the computer database systems have weak administration login credentials.

Threat Analysis

BlackPOS is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.

External References

→https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/new-blackpos-malware-emerges-in-the-wild-targets-retail-accounts/

→https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/operation-black-atlas-endangers-in-store-card-payments-and-smbs-worldwide-switches-between-blackpos-and-other-tools/

→https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents/new-pos-malware-samples.pdf

→https://web.archive.org/web/20200509171721/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fdiskyou/threat-INTel/master/2015/GlobalThreatIntelReport.pdf

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.blackpos

Research Links

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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.

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