On November 14th, Visa issued a new security alert regarding the increased use of point-of-sale (POS) malware to harvest card data from fuel dispenser merchant POS systems. Two major data breaches have occurred in the last few months and Visa states, “The threat actors were able to obtain this payment card data due to the lack of secure acceptance technology, (e.g. EMV® Chip, Point-to-Point Encryption, Tokenization, etc.) and non-compliance with PCI DSS.” Read the full bulletin.
