Authorities in Niigata, Japan are making headway in their investigation of a heist that took place back in May where approximately $17.3 million was stolen from cash machines across the country in a single day. The Japan Times reported that Niigata police arrested 11 men...
The international criminal group thought to be behind a year-long series of malware attacks on ATMs across Europe was dismantled late last week. The operation to take down the gang, which was overseen by the Romanian National Police and the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crimes...
Just as merchants are cracking down at the point of sale, data thieves are finding a new target from which to skim debit card data – the ATM. Between January and April of this year alone, the number of assaults on consumer debit launched through...
November 21, 2016
Why make one’s life hard hacking consumer accounts — or taking up armed robbery — when one can get the best of both worlds by directly attacking the banks’ computers and getting ATMs to do things like start spewing cash for no apparent reason? Taiwan and Thailand saw such attacks earlier this year when cyber […]
January 11, 2016
The international criminal group thought to be behind a year-long series of malware attacks on ATMs across Europe was dismantled late last week. The operation to take down the gang,...
May 20, 2015
Just as merchants are cracking down at the point of sale, data thieves are finding a new target from which to skim debit card data – the ATM. Between January...
