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 scraped data is then encoded with a base64 algorithm and stored to the magnetic strip on the back of the card. The encoded data is then moved to the second machine through SMB .