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A cash machine is being hacked in five minutes [Video]
Security expert reveals how cash machines can be hacked in just FIVE minutes
Cash machines are so easy to hack it can be done in just five minutes, a security expert has revealed.
Most cash machines are essentially Windows XP computers attached to a safe, according to the expert from Positive Technologies.
If attackers drill a hole in the front they can access a USB cable and dispense money.
If a hacked machine collects an individual’s card details they can spread your data around a network of ATMs and dispense your money without you having any idea.
Leigh-Anne Galloway, a security expert with Positive Technologies, showed BBC how to hack an ATM made by Georgian-based company NCR – one of the largest makers of the machine.
The attacker first drills a hole in the front of the machine where the keypad is.
Behind this is a USB port.
‘It’s just a safe with a computer on top’, Ms Galloway told BBC Click’s Spencer Kelly.
For security reasons the video does not show how to remove the cash after finding the USB cable but the process takes just one minute.
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‘So you could put malware on this system that could collect data from cards as well’, she said.
ATM HACKS
Most cash machines are essentially Windows XP computers attached to a safe meaning if attackers can drill a hole in the front they can access a USB cable release a user’s cash.
For security reasons the video does not show how to remove the cash after finding the USB cable but the process takes just one minute.
To help protect yourself experts suggest using an ATM in a bank with security cameras on them.
‘So that would be information that’s held on our cards as well. So if I as a consumer am using this machine it could collect my card data’.
‘And that could spread around the whole network of ATMs’, she said.
To help protect yourself experts suggest using an ATM in a bank with security cameras on them.
CYBER CRIMINALS AND CASH MACHINES
Last year it was revealed that cyber criminals had remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe.
A February 2016 attack on servers at Bangladesh’s central bank that controlled access to the SWIFT messaging system yielded more than $81 million (£64.95 million) in one of the biggest digital heists on record.
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Disclosure of the campaign follows two ATM hacks in July 2016: $2.5 million (£2 million) was stolen from Taiwan’s First Bank and $350,000 (£280,000) from Thailand’s state-run Government Savings Bank.
Hackers remotely infected ATMs at both banks, forcing them to spit out cash that was collected by teams of ‘money mules,’ who authorities say travelled to Asia from Eastern Europe.
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