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Cybergang Compromises Every ATM In Russian City

Started by IBManners, 2010.12.05, 16:15:32

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IBManners

"A group of fraudsters has been arrested in Yakutsk and Moscow for allegedly compromising all the ATMs in the city of Yakutsk — population: around 210,000 — in the Republic of Yakutia in the Russian Federation. Three of the men formed the actual criminal group, and the fourth — a Moscow-based malware developer — was 'subcontracted' by them and received 100,000 rubles (some $3200) to develop a custom ATM virus with which they would infect the devices."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/04/1531252/Cybergang-Compromises-Every-ATM-In-Russian-City
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1555

Been looking around and there is no mention if these are Windy, OS/2, or the older philips ATM's etc.

I'm interested as I use to service ATM's as well :-)
I am the computer, it is me.


RobertM

There are a number of other articles that seem to indicate they are Windows machines, as well as a number that indicate that a large portion of Russian ATMs are running on pirated copies of Windows.

I have no idea of the accuracy of those articles, but then again, I cannot remember a single incident of an OS/2 ATM machine being hacked. Theoretically, bad programming of the interface applications for an OS/2 ATM would allow it, but after 2.5 decades, I suspect such an attempt would have succeeded a long time ago.


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