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High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware (isightpartners.com)

Posted by timothy on from the pos-is-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new malware framework called ModPOS is reported to pose a threat to U.S. retailers, and has some of the highest-quality coding work ever put into a ill-intentioned software of this nature. Security researchers iSight say of the ModPOS platform that it is 'much more complex than average malware'. The researchers believe that the binary output they have been studying for three years was written in a high-level language such as C, and that the software took 'a significant amount of time and resources to create and debug'.

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  1. High level or low level? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Usually C is referred to as a "low level" language.

    1. Re:High level or low level? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      The "level" refers to the level of abstraction away from how the underlying machine operates, it's an inherently relative concept. Relative to the "binary output they have been studying for three years" C is indeed a high level language.

  2. Re:High level? by GrumpySteen · · Score: 3, Informative

    C is a high level coding language now?

    Depends on how old you are.