Chewbacca Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign Found in 10 Countries

A criminal campaign using the Tor-based Chewbacca Trojan, which includes memory-scraping malware and a

keylogger, is responsible for the theft of more than 49,000 credit card numbers in 10 countries.

Before you think that RAM scraper malware was a phenomenon specific to the Target breach, think again. A four-month-long crime spree targeting point-of-sale systems in a number of industries has been discovered; the campaign, however, is not related to the mammoth Target break-in or other recently reported hacks at Neiman

Marcus or Michaels.

The malware in question is the privately sold Chewbacca Trojan, which is a two-pronged threat that uses the…