Russian ATMs have learned to steal credit card details without skimmers

“Kaspersky lab” told about the epidemic of infections bedorom ATM Skimer. We are talking about a lot of ATMs around the world, including in Russia. Skimer allows fraudsters to obtain credit card details of users without the use of portable reading devices-skimmers.

If the ATM Skimer infected, it transmits the information about the criminals used Bank cards, including account numbers and PIN codes and also allows you to withdraw cash. In contrast to the use of additional gadgets-skimmer detect such an attack more difficult and fraud can be a long time to hide their activity.

A backdoor is activated by a special stitched card with a special code in the magnetic stripe. Then runs a special menu through which Skimer receives commands from fraud.


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