Cases of hacking ATMs in order to steal funds have sharply increased this month - approximately 10 incidents were recorded in December In these episodes, criminals resort to the help of low-skilled accomplices.
Also, the media report a sharp demand for carders for the technology of theft of funds from ATMs, called BlackBox.
“BlackBox is based on connecting a third-party device to a dispenser - a device for dispensing money,” Sergey Golovanov, a leading antivirus expert at Kaspersky Lab, quotes kommersant.ru. where is the computer. "
Many experts note a strange discrepancy between these data and the official statistics of the Central Bank, they say, according to the Bank of Russia for the entire last year, banks reported only 21 incidents, and this month alone there are already 10.
"These attacks are interesting because in this case, carders are clearly contracting," experts familiar with the investigation told kommersant.ru
