vSkimmer. It’s a piece of POS malware from the Russian underground, circa. a botnet built specifically to rip Track 2 data straight from Windows-based payment terminals’ memory. It scans processes, bypasses a whitelist, pattern-matches for card data, and ships it off Base64-encoded to a C2 server. If it’s offline, it just waits for a USB to dump the logs insider friendly design. It targets the in transaction flow, classic RAM-scraping before EMV became the hard standard. Legacy tech, but the logic is foundational
