ATM

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

The banking sector has always been at the center of criminal attention. Today, banks must contend with near-constant cyber attacks from organized criminal gangs, as well as highly skilled and well-resourced threat actors working on behalf of nation-states. In recent years we have seen multiple APT groups launching sophisticated attacks on financial institutions around the…

Malware & Threats

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What do successful pentesting attacks have in common?

In external penetration testing undertaken for corporate clients in industrial, financial, and transport verticals in 2018, Positive Technologies found that, at the vast majority of companies, there were multiple vectors in which an attacker could reach the internal network. Full control of infrastructure was obtained on all tested systems in internal pentesting. In addition, the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

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

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…

Malware & Threats

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ATM hackers switch to network-based attacks

More and more attacks against ATMs are network-based, Trend Micro researchers have found. Since the discovery of the first ATM malware back in 2009, criminals have concentrated on opening the ATM’s case and accessing the machine’s internals to boot the malware up from an external USB or CD. But lately, as banks have ramped up…