<s>
It	O
was	O
discovered	O
in	O
September	O
2015	O
along	O
with	O
other	O
kinds	O
of	O
POS	O
malware	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
NewPOSThings	O
,	O
BlackPOS	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Alina	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
2.0	O
variant	O
of	O
CenterPOS	B-Application
malware	I-Application
added	O
some	O
more	O
effective	O
features	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
addition	O
of	O
a	O
configuration	O
file	O
for	O
storing	O
information	O
in	O
its	O
command	O
and	O
control	O
server	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
normal	O
scan	O
mode	O
,	O
the	O
malware	O
looks	O
at	O
all	O
of	O
the	O
processes	O
on	O
a	O
device	O
and	O
determines	O
which	O
ones	O
are	O
not	O
currently	O
running	O
processes	O
,	O
are	O
not	O
named	O
"	O
system	O
"	O
,	O
"	O
system	O
idle	O
process	O
"	O
or	O
"	O
idle	O
"	O
,	O
and	O
do	O
not	O
contain	O
keywords	O
such	O
as	O
Microsoft	O
or	O
Mozilla	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
CenterPOS	B-Application
malware	I-Application
searches	O
for	O
the	O
configuration	O
file	O
that	O
contains	O
the	O
C&C	O
information	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
CenterPOS	B-Application
malware	I-Application
looks	O
for	O
the	O
credit	O
and	O
debit	O
card	O
information	O
through	O
smart	O
scan	O
mode	O
and	O
then	O
encrypts	O
all	O
the	O
scraped	O
data	O
using	O
Triple	B-Algorithm
DES	I-Algorithm
encryption	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Then	O
the	O
memory	O
scraped	O
data	O
is	O
sent	O
to	O
the	O
operator	O
of	O
the	O
malware	O
through	O
a	O
separate	O
HTTP	B-Protocol
POST	I-Protocol
request	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
