Malware and Skimmers, Explosions and Hammers: How Attackers Go After ATMs
Survey, YouTube offer proof that people are blowing up ATMs to get the cash inside.
Megan Geuss | February 25, 2016
In November 2015, ATMIA internally published a survey (PDF) describing the state of ATM hacking in the previous year, from how ATMs were attacked to how much money was lost from the attacks. The results showed that ATM operators were wising up to skimming operations, in which devices are placed in or on the ATM to capture card information so the skimmer can reuse the card numbers later. This caused "a deflection of crime from traditional electronic skimming towards more physical and less sophisticated forms of attack, especially card trapping and Transaction Reversal Fraud.”
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| More One of the cash machines allegedly blown up by a gang that was arrested for 30 ATM blasts. Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-dramatic-moment-merseyside-hole-in-the-wall-8534836 |
<more at http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/malware-and-skimmers-explosions-and-hammers-how-attackers-go-after-atms/; related articles: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-dramatic-moment-merseyside-hole-in-the-wall-8534836 (+Video) (Watch: Dramatic moment Merseyside hole-in-the-wall gang blow up cash machines using 'gas bombs'. January 28, 2015) and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3063027/Dramatic-moment-ATM-raiders-used-flammable-gas-BLOW-cash-machines-escape-81-000.html (Dramatic moment ATM raiders used flammable gas to BLOW UP cash machines and escape with £81,000. Benjamin Barrett and Russel Bennett carried out raids around south Wales. They attacked ATMs with crow bars before pumping gas inside machines. Flash then seen as security doors are blown off ATMs in south Wales. Barrett, 30, and Bennett, 21, both from Bristol, jailed for burglary and conspiracy to cause explosion. April 30, 2015)>
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