ATM skimmer caught in the wild by a real security engineer

2016/6/25 20:10:26

John Biggs reminds why it pays to be skeptical and watchful when using ATM’s.

 


Posted by John Biggs (@johnbiggs) in TechCrunch, June 24, 2016

 

Whoda thunk it? Tourist/cybersecurity expert Benjamin Tedesco was hanging out in Vienna when he walked up to an ATM. Because he trusts no one he decided to give the reader a little tug and came away with a working skimmer designed to look exactly like the card slot on the original machine.

 

“It pays to be paranoid,” he said — and he’s right.

 

Tedesco pulled off the skimmer and took some pictures of it and will try to reverse engineer it when he heads back home (presumably with the credit card data still on it).

 

Some Reddit users have spotted the pinhole camera that the hackers used to grab PIN codes, as well, a feature that lets full cards be stolen in seconds.

 

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https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/24/atm- ... a-real-security-engineer/

 

Photo courtesy Benjamin Tedesco

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