Thieves Steal ATM With Forklift in Daring Arkansas Heist
It’s a lot harder to “take the money and run” when the cash you want is trapped inside an ATM. But some daring thieves in Arkansas recently used a forklift in their effort to do just that.
Man Stuck Inside ATM Rescued After Slipping Customers Terrifying Notes
Under capitalism, money imprisons us all, but for one man in Corpus Christi, Texas, this arrangement transcended mere metaphor recently. On Wednesday afternoon, the contractor (whose name has not been released) was fixing a lock in a room connected to a Bank of America ATM when, suddenly, he trapped himself in.…
North Korean Defector Describes the Shock of Adjusting to a Society With Advanced Technology
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating new video about the struggles that many North Koreans go through when they defect to the South. Many of the hurdles are technological. As just one example, when North Koreans first encounter ATMs they sometimes believe that there’s a person inside the machine because the ATM…
Thieves Skip the Skimmer and Steal the Whole Damn ATM Instead
If you wanted to take advantage of an ATM, you might equip it with a skimmer, a device which captures electronic information from people’s cards and uses it to siphon away money. Two thieves in Pennsylvania, however, decided to go another route and rip the whole damn machine out instead.
ATM Skimming Malware Is Getting Scarier
In 2009, malware called “Skimer” surfaced and security firms took notice. Skimer is essentially malware that gives hackers full access to an ATM without needing to install any physical hardware, like a card skimmer. According to a new investigation by Kaspersky Lab, the malware is not only seems in use, but it’s also…
Watch Out: There's Been a Rise in Almost-Invisible Card Skimmers
Be careful where you put your card. The ATM manufacturer NCR has recently issued an alert to banks, warning them that there’s been a rise in the use of “deep insert skimmers,” which hide inside cash machines and are virtually impossible to spot.
Chase's New $1,000 ATM Limit Is Fucked Up
As flesh-and-blood bank tellers disappear, ATMs are becoming the only way to get access to your cash. But new limits from Chase on how much you’re allowed to withdraw are a privacy advocate’s nightmare come true.
Crooks Don't Need a Fancy Skimmer: They Can Just Tap an ATM's Network Cable
Not all ATM attacks need an elaborate skimmer. There’s a new kind of crime doing the rounds, which involves hijacking the ethernet cable of an ATM to gather your card information.
New Russian ATM Malware Can Steal Your Banking Details
Security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware called Backdoor.ATM.Suceful that infects ATMs and can steal your baking details.
China Has the World's First Facial Recognition ATM
China has proudly announced the world’s first facial recognition cash machines, which will only allow people to withdraw cash if their face matches the details stored on their card.
Police Are Beating Card Skimmers With GPS Trackers
You might think that the best way to fight card skimmers would be hunt them down and destroy them. But in California, at least, police have been leaving the skimmers right where they are—after they’ve fitted GPS trackers to them, that is.
Withdrawing Cash With a Smartphone Could Beat The Card Skimmers
The U.S. loses more money to card fraud than the rest of the world combined — something that's mostly down to the magnetic stripes that make our cards incredibly hackable. Although more secure technologies are coming, they'll require time and money to adopt. But one kindly Canadian bank has a secure system that only…
A Simple Trick to Protect Your PIN From Thieves With Thermal Cameras
Thermal cameras were once expensive and bulky hunks of equipment that very few people could get their hands on. No longer. With FLIR's new iPhone case thermal imaging cameras are now both affordable and incredibly discreet, which means that evil-doers can use it to see the thermal signature your fingers leave on a…
The Evolution of ATM Skimmers
In a little over a decade, ATM skimmers have gone from urban myth to a wildly complex, ever-evolving suite of technologies that has the potential to be the worst nightmare of anyone with a bank account. Here's a look at how quickly skimmers have evolved—and why they're increasingly impossible to spot.
You'd Never Spot This Razor-Thin ATM Skimmer
The constant drive for miniaturization doesn't just apply to consumer electronics: the crooks are at it, too. And when it comes to card skimmers, this tiny thing is pretty much impossible to spot.
The Latest Super-Thin ATM Skimmers Are Virtually Unspottable
Just like consumer tech, criminal tech advances in leaps and bounds—and none more so than the ATM skimmer. Now, the kinds of skimmers being used are so slim and small that you'll never see them—and their battery life means they last an age, too.
Forget Card Skimming: Watch Out For ATMs That Want Sex With You
Remember that guy that got so drunk he tried to have sex with a cash machine? Well, Conan unearthed some (fictional) footages of the incident—and perhaps it's not the poor guy's fault after all.
Researchers Are Making an ATM that Spews Hot Acid at Thieves
For wannabe thieves, nothing is more tantalizing than an empty street and a vulnerable ATM. Soon, though, they could be facing more than just failure. Taking design cues from mother nature herself, researchers are building ATMs that fend off thieves with a spray of hot, steaming foam.
Most ATMs Are Still Running Windows XP--Which Is About to Die Off
The last ATM you used probably didn't feel very cutting-edge compared to your smartphone. That's because it's probably running Windows XP, an operating system so old, Microsoft will stop supporting it in April.
Beware This Simple But Incredibly Effective Point-of-Sale Skimmer
Card skimmers are getting way more common, to the point that they've even started appearing on point-of-sale card machines. And, boy, if this thing is anything to go by, they're getting better and better.
