Cyber-Attacks: How to Stop a Multibillion-Dollar Problem

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Where there’s money, there has always been crime. Traditional bank robbery and physical assaults on ATMs are still a challenge, and now a new breed of cyber-enabled theft—using ATMs as the endpoint for cash-outs— has become a multibillion-dollar problem. One recent raid saw $13.5m stolen from India’s Cosmos Bank. Although the FBI issued a warning about an impending “ATM cash-out” operation, it was too late; the bank was attacked just one day after the warning. So what can financial institutions do about a decade-long threat showing no signs of abating?

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