Collaborate Disseminate
It’s low tech, but effective.
Why Germany? It has more ATMs than other European countries, and—if I read the article right—they have more money in them.
Continue reading Criminals Are Blowing up ATMs in Germany
Researchers trained a machine-learning system on videos of people typing their PINs into ATMs:
By using three tries, which is typically the maximum allowed number of attempts before the card is withheld, the researchers reconstructed the correct sequen… Continue reading Using Machine Learning to Guess PINs from Video
It’s a series of vulnerabilities:
Josep Rodriguez, a researcher and consultant at security firm IOActive, has spent the last year digging up and reporting vulnerabilities in the so-called near-field communications reader chips used in millions of ATMs and point-of-sale systems worldwide. NFC systems are what let you wave a credit card over a reader — rather than swipe or insert it — to make a payment or extract money from a cash machine. You can find them on countless retail store and restaurant counters, vending machines, taxis, and parking meters around the globe…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide: This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Cyber… Continue reading North Korea ATM Hack
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide:
This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). Working with U.S. government partners, CISA, Treasury, FBI, and USCYBERCOM identified malware and indicators of…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Here are the top five ATM security vulnerabilities that X-Force Red, IBM Security’s team of veteran hackers, has uncovered during its many years of performing ATM penetration tests.
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7 new Spectre/Meltdown attacks, Hacking ATM’s for free cash is easier than Windows XP, AI can now fake fingerprints fooling ID scanners, and Japan’s cybersecurity minister admits he’s never used a computer! Paul’s Stories Facebo… Continue reading Spectre, ATMs, and Japan’s Minister – Paul’s Security Weekly #583
This type of multinational ATM cashout could drain cash machines of millions within the span of hours. Continue reading FBI warns banks that crooks are planning choreographed ATM drainage
Brian Krebs is reporting sophisticated jackpotting attacks against US ATMs. The attacker gains physical access to the ATM, plants malware using specialized electronics, and then later returns and forces the machine to dispense all the cash it has insid… Continue reading Jackpotting Attacks Against US ATMs
Brian Krebs is reporting sophisticated jackpotting attacks against US ATMs. The attacker gains physical access to the ATM, plants malware using specialized electronics, and then later returns and forces the machine to dispense all the cash it has inside. The Secret Service alert explains that the attackers typically use an endoscope — a slender, flexible instrument traditionally used in medicine… Continue reading Jackpotting Attacks Against US ATMs