I knew about skimmers, but this is going to a whole new level. Wow.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 20:25, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> wrote: > You want scary on a Friday evening? Check this out. Talk about the perfect > bank-account-looting tool - it captures your card info AND your PIN and > texts them to the bad guys immediately. I don't know if I could have > detected this hacked ATM. Scary! Pix were taken by Mykko Hyponnen of > F-Secure: > ATM main view: http://twitpic.com/4pko1 > ATM close-up of the slot: http://twitpic.com/4pkn3 > ATM showing capture camera (in phone): http://twitpic.com/4pknu > ATM slot skimming device: http://twitpic.com/4pkmn > ATM closeup of phone & batts: http://twitpic.com/4pkmj > Here's another skimming device that was mounted on a Citibank ATM: > Would You Have Spotted the Fraud? — Krebs on Security > http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/would-you-have-spotted-the-fraud/ > Pictured below is what’s known as a skimmer, or a device made to be affixed > to the mouth of an ATM machine and secretly swipe credit and debit card > information when bank customers slip their cards into the machines to pull > out money. Skimmers have been around for years, of course, but thieves are > constantly improving them, and the device picture below is a perfect example > of that evolution. > This particular skimmer was found Dec. 6, 2009, attached to the front of a > Citibank ATM in Woodland Hills, Calif. Would you have been able to spot > this? > > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-895-3270 > ~! > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
