Probably never heard of this company but you have likely swiped a card on one of their terminals at some point.
FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/fbi-raids-chinese-point-of-sale-giant-pax-technology/
U.S. federal investigators today raided the Florida offices of
PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. The raid is tied to reports that PAX’s systems may have been involved in cyberattacks on U.S. and E.U. organizations.
Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, PAX has more than 60 million point-of-sale terminals in use throughout 120 countries. Earlier today, Jacksonville, Fla. based
WOKV.com reported that agents with the FBI and
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had raided a local PAX Technology warehouse.
In an official statement, investigators told WOKV only that they were executing a court-authorized search at the warehouse as a part of a federal investigation, and that the inquiry included the
Department of Customs and Border Protection and the
Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS). The FBI has not responded to requests for comment.
Several days ago, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a trusted source that the FBI began investigating PAX after a major U.S. payment processor started asking questions about unusual network packets originating from the company’s payment terminals.
According to that source, the payment processor found that the PAX terminals were being used both as a malware “dropper” — a repository for malicious files — and as “command-and-control” locations for staging attacks and collecting information.
“FBI and MI5 are conducting an intensive investigation into PAX,” the source said. “A major US payment processor began asking questions about network packets originating from PAX terminals and were not given any good answers.”
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