POS-PAYMENT-SWITCHLateral Movement

Payment-Switch Network Pivot

POS network is flat; pivot from a payment-switch host into back-office systems — Target 2013 / Home Depot 2014 pattern.

§ Where this technique fits

POS-PAYMENT-SWITCH is catalogued under the Lateral Movement tactic of the offensive-security kill-chain. It appears in 1 approved dossier in the registry, typically at step 3 on average.

§ Dossiers chaining this technique

POS network pivot → RAM-scraper → card data exfil
The Target 2013 / Home Depot 2014 chain: vendor foothold → flat payment-switch VLAN → drop a memory-scraping malware on POS terminals → exfil track data through a payment-switch host.
step 3 / 7

§ What commonly comes next

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POS RAM Scraping
POS-RAM-SCRAPE · Collection
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§ Where this technique fits

§ Dossiers chaining this technique

POS network pivot → RAM-scraper → card data exfil

§ What commonly comes next