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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:45:41 +0000

The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a recent uptick in a form of ATM skimming that involves cutting cupcake-sized holes in a cash machine and then using a combination of magnets and medical devices to siphon customer account data directly from the card reader inside the ATM.

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First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

January 27, 2018 admin All About Skimmers, atm jackpotting, atm logical attacks, Daniel Regalado, Diebold Nixdorf, Diebold Opteva, endoscope, FireEye, Latest Warnings, NCR Corp, Ploutus.D, The Coming Storm, U.S. Secret Service, Windows 7, Windows XP

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:45:08 +0000

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 all that changed this week after the U.S. Secret Service quietly began warning financial institutions that jackpotting attacks have now been spotted targeting cash machines here in the United States.