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Enlarge (credit: STML / Flickr) Two men have been charged with stealing as much as $ 50,000 through “Jackpotting,” a crime that causes malware-infected ATMs to rapidly empty their cash reserves to waiting accomplices. Alex Alberto Fajin-Diaz, 31, of Spain, and Argenys Rodriguez, 21, of Springfield, Massachusetts, allegedly dressed as ATM repair technicians and approached […]
The “jackpotting” ATM attack drained tens of millions of dollars worldwide before landing in the United States. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a71266359fd0f2b58630094/master/pass/ATM-Hack-701002580.jpg
(Reuters) — A coordinated group of hackers likely tied to international criminal syndicates has pilfered more than $ 1 million by hijacking ATM machines across the United States and forcing them to spit out bills like slot machines dispensing a jackpot, a senior U.S. Secret Service official said on Monday. Within the past few days […]
Enlarge (credit: Martin Iturbide) For the first time on record, ATMs located in the US are falling prey to jackpotting, an attack in which malicious hardware or software forces the machines to dispense huge amounts of cash to waiting thieves, KrebsOnSecurity reported over the weekend. Jackpotting has been documented in other countries, but until recently […]
For some ATM thieves, swiping card data involves too much patience — they’d rather just take the money and run. The US Secret Service has warned ATM makers Diebold Nixdorf and NCR that “jackpotting” hacks, where crooks force machine to cough up large sums of cash, have reached the US after years of creating problems […]
