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According to the Japanese publication The Mainichi, on Sunday it became known that more than 1.4 billion yen ($12.7 million) were stolen from 1,400 ATMs located throughout Japan in May. The operation was completed in just two hours. So far, the main version of law enforcement agencies is the...

Employees of the “K” department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, specializing in crimes in the IT sector, caught a gang of fraudsters who installed fake ATMs. Three residents of Udmurtia bought decommissioned ATMs, updated them and placed them in crowded places in Moscow, the Moscow region...

No, this is not cooking software at all. Here we are talking about a “cutlet of money”, not a dish. Automated teller machines (ATM) are specialized machines that are designed to conduct various types of financial transactions, including issuing cash. As a rule, their control unit is a modified...

In El Salvador, they began to install 200 ATMs that will allow transactions with bitcoins. In addition, this option will be available in 50 bank branches across the country. Crypto ATMs in El Salvador El Salvador is preparing the infrastructure before the law recognizing Bitcoin as a means of...

Once again, while withdrawing money from an ATM of one of the Ukrainian banks, I noticed an information message that asked me to make sure that the PIN keyboard matches the image on the screen. After checking the image, I realized that the keyboards are different. I examined the PIN keyboard...

Actually, the word “hacker” is used here in a positive context, not implying a computer hacker. It's quite the opposite - network security specialist Jack Barnaby learned how to hack ATMs in order to point out to developers the main vulnerabilities of the system. In general, Jack found an easy...

Why did many banks and retail chains begin to massively update self-service devices, cash registers and operating systems in 2020? How to navigate the variety of OS and update options? How to save on updating and not pay twice? Who and how should update the software on ATMs and other devices...

The news about the appearance of viruses in ATMs caused a lot of noise today. Habré has already posted links to relevant publications on the sites Lenta.ru and CNews, but we have not received any official comments from companies involved in information security. And I literally just received...

Employees at ETH Zurich have developed a special film that, when damaged, releases very hot foam to protect against malicious acts. Scientists propose using similar technology to protect against vandalism and theft at ATMs. The developed film is a huge set of microscopic plastic honeycombs...

There are systems that mere mortals do not have access to by default. And the developers of such systems naively believe that they are protected from penetration and the watchful eyes of researchers. Take, for example, automated teller machines (ATMs). There are often cases when unknown people...

SC Magazine reported on the discovery of a new family of malicious software for ATMs, with which attackers can steal all the money stored in them. The worm is called ATMii and targets devices running Windows 7 and Vista. ATMii activity was first noted in April 2017. Researchers from Kaspersky...

In Kyiv, a criminal group that specialized in secretly infiltrating the service parts of ATMs and further infecting the operating system of ATMs with malicious software code, which led to the unauthorized withdrawal of funds, was neutralized. Ukrainian banks suffered damage in the amount of more...

Often you have to “communicate” with ATMs of various organizations. Receiving cash, paying loans, etc. And you have to feel firsthand all the inconveniences that are built into the interface of programs installed in ATMs. I am a fairly advanced user, so it is not difficult for me to understand...

Europol detained criminals who emptied ATMs without using a plastic card - using the Tyupkin virus pre-loaded into the ATM. First, using a bootable CD, criminals gained access to computers installed inside ATMs running one of the older versions of Windows and infected them with malware. This...

It was evening, there was nothing to do... we decided to blow up the ATM and investigate. Not the real one, of course, but the one in the photo. Well... the ATM is real, but it was written off a long time ago and acted as a guinea pig for us. A low bow to those who manage to rob them: I sawed it...

Seven years ago – in 2009 – we encountered a completely new type of attack on banks. Instead of infecting the computers of thousands of users around the world, cybercriminals focused directly on ATMs - infecting them with malware called Skimer. And now, seven years later, Kaspersky Lab's Global...

In February 2017, we published research on fileless attacks on corporate networks. Incident response teams from several financial institutions located in different countries collected data that showed how malware infected corporate networks without leaving any traces on hard drives. The...

Disclaimer: This article is published for informational purposes only and in no way constitutes a guide to action. The vulnerabilities described in the material were discovered by the author of the article as part of a project agreed upon with the ATM manufacturer. They have now been corrected...

The average ATM contains between 1 and 3 million rubles inside. They are arranged in 4 cassettes, each of which contains banknotes of its own denomination. Replacing cartridges is similar to replacing cartridges in a printer: the module is removed (and it doesn’t matter how much money is left...

The idea of creating your own ATM sounded a little crazy. But we deliberately took risks in order to provide our ATM with new capabilities that our competitors do not have. In this post, we want to share what our team learned from developing, testing, and deploying our own ATM network, and...