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on Monday January 29 2018, @10:31PM
from the how-do-you-pull-down-the-handle? dept.
from the how-do-you-pull-down-the-handle? dept.
Diebold Nixdorf Inc and NCR Corp, two of the world's largest ATM makers, have warned that cyber criminals are targeting U.S. cash machines with tools that force them to spit out cash in hacking schemes known as "jackpotting."
The two ATM makers did not identify any victims or say how much money had been lost. Jackpotting has been rising worldwide in recent years, though it is unclear how much cash has been stolen because victims and police often do not disclose details.
The attacks were reported earlier on Saturday by the security news website Krebs on Security, which said they had begun last year in Mexico.
The companies confirmed to Reuters on Saturday they had sent out the alerts to clients.
Source: Reuters
Article at Krebs on Security.
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ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @12:38AM
My guess is that they trick the machine into just continually spitting out money.
An old casino trick, for the slots, you could stick a reflector up inside. The slot machines used a beam and counted the breaks in the beam to know how many tokens had been spit out. If you placed a reflector in the right spot, the beam would never break, and the machine would spit out an apparent jackpot's worth of tokens.
Now imagine you could do the same with a cash machine where you don't have to explain a large number of tokens to the teller's window.
(Perhaps you found this somewhat easier to follow that the troll's post.)