Point-Of-Sale Attacks Continue

Point-of-sale attacks continued in 2015. What was different last year was that attacks shifted from retail organizations to multiple large hotel chains, targeting the companies' gift shops and retail locations, the report said. Some examples of that include Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in November and the Hilton Hotel chain in September. In particular, the report found that command and control attacks were on the rise in 2015, with RAM scraping and keylogging malware also holding a significant role throughout the year.

"It should be no surprise to anyone that this pattern is alive and well in the 2015 dataset. There are still folks out there seeking to get paid and looking to stolen payment card data as the means to meet their greedy objectives," the report said. The report recommended implementing two-factor authentication, for both the POS system and the vendors tied to it.