Novel Prilex malware variants target contactless credit card payments

Three new variants of the Prilex point-of-sale malware were discovered by Kaspersky researchers to have the capability of blocking NFC-enabled contactless credit card transactions to force targets to insert their credit card into the payment terminal and enable easier card data exfiltration, reports BleepingComputer.

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