Anti-Skimmer Detector for Skimmer Scammers

Crooks who make and deploy ATM skimmers are constantly engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with financial institutions, which deploy a variety of technological measures designed to defeat skimming devices. The latest innovation aimed at tipping the scales in favor of skimmer thieves is a small, batte...

ATM Users May Soon Face More Malware

By: David Sancho, Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro and Juan Jesús León, Product and New Development Manager of GMV Secure e-Solutions Trend Micro and GMV - an industry expert on ATM security - presented last week in London, during ATMSec, a conference focused on the topic. Our presentation...

You can now buy ATM malware on Dark Web for $5000

By Uzair Amir A few days back we informed you about the findings This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: You can now buy ATM malware on Dark Web for $5000...

ATM malware is being sold on Darknet market

Disclaimer and warning ATM systems appear to be very secure, but the money can be accessed fairly easily if you know what you are doing. Criminals are exploiting hardware and software vulnerabilities to interact with ATMs, meaning they need to be made more secure. This can be achieved with the he...

Dangerous Malware Allows Anyone to Empty ATMs—And It’s On Sale!

Hacking ATM is now easier than ever before. Usually, hackers exploit hardware and software vulnerabilities to hack ATMs and force them to spit out cash, but now anyone can simply buy a malware to steal millions in cash from ATMs. Hackers are selling ready-made ATM malware on an underground hackin...

ATMii: a small but effective ATM robber

While some criminals blow up ATMs to steal cash, others use less destructive methods, such as infecting the ATM with malware and then stealing the money. We have written about this phenomenon extensively in the past and today we can add another family of malware to the list - Backdoor.Win32.ATMii...

Latin American ATM Thieves Turning to Hacking

MADRID—ATM jackpotting is hardly a novelty act in Latin America where criminals are more than ever connecting with hackers to figure out how to more efficiently steal money from an automated teller than, say, by using a stick of dynamite. No, it’s not uncommon to hear about thefts in Brazil,...

Remote Malware Attacks on ATMs

This report discusses the new trend of remote malware attacks against ATMs...

The vulnerability of the application-based Checker ATM Security, which provides protection for banknote processing platforms and networks, arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer in memory, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Checker ATM Security application, which provides protection for banknote processing systems and networks, arises from operations that go beyond the buffer in memory buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code using...

Attack The Machines: The lucrative business of ATM malware

Trend Micro and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre EC3 today released a publicly available report on the ATM malware landscape. This builds on the 2016 report that was privately released to financial institutions and law enforcement agencies globally. The report digs into the depth and breadth ...

419 spam: 10 million US dollars, courtesy of “Rev. Goodluck Ebola”

I'm not saying an email claiming to be from the "Central Bank of Nigeria" with a contact handler named "Rev. Goodluck Ebola" will raise too many red flags, but… Click to Enlarge CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Zaria Street, Off Samuel Akintola Street,Garki 11, Garki-Abuja. Our Ref:...

Dumping Data from Deep-Insert Skimmers

I recently heard from a police detective who was seeking help identifying some strange devices found on two Romanian men caught maxing out stolen credit cards at local retailers. Further inspection revealed the devices to be semi-flexible data transfer wands that thieves can use to extract stolen...

Thieves Used Infrared to Pull Data from ATM ‘Insert Skimmers’

A greater number of ATM skimming incidents now involve so-called "insert skimmers," wafer-thin fraud devices made to fit snugly and invisibly inside a cash machine’s card acceptance slot. New evidence suggests that at least some of these insert skimmers -- which record card data and store it on a...

So You Think You Can Spot a Skimmer?

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the automated teller machine -- better known to most people as the ATM or cash machine. Thanks to the myriad methods thieves have devised to fleece unsuspecting cash machine users over the years, there are now more ways than ever to get ripped off at the AT...

A week in security (Jun 12 – Jun 18)

Last week was very busy for the Labs, with a look at so-called numeric tech support scams, a visit to the huge Infosec Europe conference, an exploration of Mac Malware as a Service, and a walk through the myths of online bullying. Elsewhere: A huge click-farm is busted Jaff Ransomware is thwarted...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 1, 2017

As you read this blog, I am probably sitting on a beach in Cancun, Mexico getting a nice tan and not thinking about security well, maybe just a little. A couple of days before I left, I had to deal with the inevitable. It never fails – every time I am about to go on vacation, the urgency of thing...

GMV Checker ATM Security Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

GMV Checker ATM Security is a dedicated ATM security product providing hard disk encryption. A security vulnerability exists in versions prior to GMV Checker ATM Security 5.0.18. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code...

Code injection

GMV Checker ATM Security prior to 5.0.18 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, aka PT-2017-03...

CVE-2017-6968

GMV Checker ATM Security prior to 5.0.18 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, aka PT-2017-03...

CVE-2017-6968

GMV Checker ATM Security Before 5.0.18 is affected by a buffer‑overflow vulnerability described in PT-2017-03. A remote authenticated attacker can trigger arbitrary code execution, with the advisory noting exploitation via a spoofed control server. The CVE records confirm the vulnerable version r...