The defendant must comply with a sentence of more than 10 years in prison A Chinese software manager was convicted of stealing around $1M USD exploiting a known vulnerability inRead More →
The Cosmos Bank incident is the most recent event of its kind Just a few days after the FBI warned cyber security organization teams in banking institutions about an imminent massiveRead More →
Ploutus is one of the most advanced ATM malware families we’ve seen in the last few years. Discovered for the first time in Mexico back in 2013, Ploutus enabled criminals to emptyRead More →
ATM can be hacked by just drilling a hole ATMs have always had a target painted on their backs. Just last year, over a dozen locations across Europe were hackedRead More →
Who needs complicated malware when you have dynamite.Criminals like to use explosives to break into ATMs, rather than deploy malware, a recent European ATM Security Team (EAST) report has shown.Read More →
London Police have continued to bag and tag criminals who installed malware in ATMs across the city, with the extradition of a Romanian man to the UK last week. EmanualRead More →
Fraudsters who hack corporate bank accounts typically launder stolen funds by making deposits from the hacked company into accounts owned by “money mules,” willing or unwitting dupes recruited through work-at-home job scams.Read More →
Kaspersky Lab presented an investigation on the future of ATM Biometric Skimmers and how cybercriminals could exploit them. A recent investigation by Kaspersky Labs reports that a number of undergroundRead More →
High-pitched sound destroys bank’s data storage drives. Problems during a planned fire drill shut down ING Romania’s entire data center for ten hours on Saturday, in an event that looked likeRead More →
Thailand – A gang of foreign criminals stole millions of baht by hacking ATMs in the country. The gang is linked the one that hacked ATMs in Taiwan. Hackers belongingRead More →
It’s no secret hotel rooms can be hacked into. One security researcher has now created a cheap, discrete device the size of a card deck that can open guest rooms at aRead More →
ATM transactions suspended in Taiwan for two days. Taiwan’s top eight banks have suspended operations on 900 ATMs after crooks stole NT$70 million ($2.18 million) from 20 branches across two citiesRead More →
The Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan is investigating a Chinese organization that is specialized in attacking ATM machines by using skimmer devices. A few days ago I reported the storyRead More →
The cyber security expert Benjamin Tedesco during his vacation in Vienna, Austria, has spotted an ATM skimmer quite impossible to detect to common people. Have you ever seen a skimmerRead More →
Over 1.4 billion Yen was reportedly stolen in a span of two and a half hours across automated teller machines (ATMs) found in over 1,400 convenience stores in Japan thisRead More →
Crooks can steal money from ATMs using special credit cards. Skimer, a malware family targeting ATMs, has received a major update the past few months, and security researchers from Kaspersky areRead More →
Skimming attacks on ATMs increased at an alarming rate last year for both American and European banks and their customers, according to recent stats collected by fraud trackers. The trend appearsRead More →
If you have ever walked up to an ATM to withdraw cash only to decide against it after noticing a telephone or ethernet cord snaking from behind the machine toRead More →
