A new way of fraud with Bank cards

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A new way of fraud with Bank cards
Be careful: fraudsters have learned to steal data from plastic cards without the use of conventional skimmers on ATMs.

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  • Новый способ мошенничества с банковскими картами
  • Новый способ мошенничества с банковскими картами

The skimmer is a tool of the attacker to read data from the card.

Normally it’s almost unnoticeable device is installed in the card slot of an ATM or card reader at the front door in the area of customer service in the Bank.

The skimmer is equipped with a reading magnetic head, Converter, built-in memory and an adapter to connect to the computer.

When “rolling” through it card the device reads the required data from the magnetic stripe to playback on the fake map so that with its help it was possible to dispose of the money in the account of the original card.

The pin code of the card is read using a disguised overlays on ATM keypads or tiny video camera hidden nearby.

Now, however, attackers have learned to do without skimmers, just cutting in to the network data cable is detached ATM.

Cybersecurity experts report that in the U.S. in recent years were registered episodes of the original fraud with ATMs of the two largest banks.

In all cases, the network cable was connected the ATM, a reader sent information about all the operations of the ATM hackers wirelessly.

This simple method allows you to attack free-standing ATMs that have access to the wires that he connected to the network.

Of course, to connect this way to the ATM embedded in a wall is impossible, and in other cases, you should be extremely careful.

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