Sep. 30th, 2015

thewayne: (Cyranose)
A "gang" who claims to be an international syndicate but is more likely a small group, paid for a couple of criminals to lob Molotov cocktails at a company who discovered a Trojan that the gang developed to compromise ATMs. They sent threats to the security researchers, giving them a deadline to remove the research from their web site, and when they didn't, some punk ran up to a building and threw a single firebomb, then ran away. The damage was minimal.

This was all going on in Kiev, St. Petersburg, and Ukraine.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/atm-skimmer-gang-firebombed-antivirus-firm/

In another story, Brian Krebs spent time in Mexico recently. There's been a huge increase in ATM skimmers and malware that they can apparently order the ATM to spit out money.

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