Jackpotting attacks hit U.S. ATMs; spit out cash in seconds

By Waqas Jackpotting is an attack/technique to exploit ATMs to make them dispense This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Jackpotting attacks hit U.S. ATMs; spit out cash in seconds...

First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

ATM "jackpotting" -- a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand -- has long been a threat for banks in Europe and Asia, yet these attacks somehow have eluded U.S. ATM operators. But...

New Malware Hits ATMs Running on Win7 and Win Vista

By Waqas Kaspersky Discovers New Malware Strain ATMii that Attacks Win7 and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Malware Hits ATMs Running on Win7 and Win Vista...

New “Fileless Malware” Targets Banks and Organizations Spotted in the Wild

More than a hundred banks and financial institutions across the world have been infected with a dangerous sophisticated, memory-based malware that's almost undetectable, researchers warned. Newly published report by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab indicates that hackers are targeting bank...

London Police Arrest Romanian ATM Hacker Who Stole Millions

A Romanian man has been arrested and charged with conspiracy relating to his involvement in a prolific ATM malware campaign. Emanual Leahu, 30, was arrested in the western city of Bacău, Romania by the London Regional Fraud Team LRFT London police run by the City of London Police on Tuesday 20...

RIPPER ATM Malware Uses Malicious EMV Chip

Update This story was updated Aug. 31. A never-before-seen malware family known as RIPPER is being blamed for a rash of ATM heists in Thailand last week. The malware, found by researchers at FireEye, is responsible for the theft of 12 million baht $378,000 from ATMs at banks across Thailand. The...

ATMs in Thailand Hacked; 12 Million Baht Stolen; 10,000 ATMs Prone to Hackers

Thailand has suffered its first ATM Hack! An Eastern European gang of criminals has stolen over 12 Million Baht approximately US$350,000 from a total of 21 ATMs in Bangkok and other five provinces by hacking a Thai bank's ATM network; police said Wednesday The Central Bank of Thailand BoT has...

Hacker arrested for ATM Skimming escaped from Prison

A Romanian card skimmer arrested for being part of an international cybercrime group that used malware to plunder US$217,000 from ATMs has escaped from a Bucharest prison on Sunday morning 6th March. Renato Marius Tulli, 34, was being held at Police Precinct 19 in Bucharest, the capital of Romani...

Indian Banks may switch to Linux, rather than taking extended Windows XP Support

As we have reported you earlier that Microsoft is pulling out their Windows XP support after April 8 2014. Since a vast majority of bank ATMs around the world currently runs on Windows XP, but if they’ll continue sticking to it after the deadline, then they’ll be exposed to all kinds of security...

Banks to Pay Microsoft Millions of Dollars for extended Windows XP Support

Despite so many warnings from Microsoft and Cyber Security Experts, Windows XP is still being used by a number of Government organizations, Financial institutions as well as big Corporations all around the world. If we look at the statistics then almost 30% of computers you will find that still r...

Hackers stole money from European ATMs using Malware-loaded USB Device

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Russian hacker steals $10 million from a former Royal Bank of Scotland !

A 27-year old Russian hacker pleaded accusable to burglary $10 actor from a above Royal Bank of Scotland analysis aback in 2008, and he's apprehension a adjudication and sentencing at the end of this or at the alpha of the abutting week. The balloon is captivated in Novosibirsk in Siberia, and th...

BofA Worker to Plead Guilty for Hacking ATMs

A Bank of America computer specialist is set to plead guilty to charges that he hacked the bank’s automated tellers to dispense cash without recording the activity. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Data-sniffing trojans hit Eastern European ATMs

From The Register Dan Goodin Security experts have discovered a family of data-stealing trojans that have burrowed into automatic teller machines in Eastern Europe over the past 18 months. The malware logs the magnetic-stripe data and personal identification number of cards used at an infected...