BlackPOS or Interprocess communication hook malware is a type of point-of-sale malware or spyware program which was specifically designed to be installed in a point of sale (POS) system to scrape data from debit and credit cards. This is very different from the normal memory-scraping malware that scrapes all the data and needs filters to extract the target data. This specifically hooks into the track information, thus it is called an interprocess communication hook. Once this malware gets installed it looks for the pos.exe file in the system and parses the content of the track 1 and track 2 financial card data. The encoded data is then moved to a second machine through SMB. BlackPOS was used in the Target Corporation data breach of 2013.