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From: "Vikas Kapoor" <[email protected]>
To: "Access India" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:09 PM
Subject: [AI] An ATM virus that steals money!
An ATM virus that steals money!
March 26, 2009 17:51 IST
Russia's leading computer security labs have warned of a new software
virus which infects Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) to steal money from
bank accounts of their users.
Two leading anti-virus software producers 'Doctor Web' and 'Kaspersky Lab'
claimed to have discovered a new virus, in the networks of several bank
ATMs, which is able to collect information from bank cards.
"This is a malicious programme intended to infect and survive in ATMs. It
is possible that new software will appear, aimed at illegitimately using
banking information and removing funds," an official of the Kaspersky Lab
was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti news agency.
He said the virus is a Trojan, which is able to infect the popular
American Diebold brand of ATMs, used in Russia and Ukraine. Judging by the
programming code used, there is a high probability that the programmer
comes from one of the former Soviet republics, he added.
The computer security experts say the number of infected ATMs is minimal
but individual bank cardholders will not be able to detect whether an ATM
is infected or not. However, banks can run a security software to find out
if their machines are at risk
http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/mar/26an-atm-virus-that-steals-money.htm
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