All About Skimmers
Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank
Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping ...
Romanian Skimmer Gang in Mexico Outed by KrebsOnSecurity Stole $1.2 Billion
An exhaustive inquiry published today by a consortium of investigative journalists says a three-part series KrebsOnSecurity published in 2015 on a Romanian ATM skimming gang operating in Mexico's top tourist destinations disrupted ...
Report: ATM Skimmer Gang Had Protection from Mexican Attorney General’s Office
A group of Romanians operating an ATM company in Mexico and suspected of bribing technicians to install sophisticated Bluetooth-based skimmers in cash machines throughout several top Mexican tourist destinations have enjoyed legal ...
Hidden Cam Above Bluetooth Pump Skimmer
Tiny hidden spy cameras are a common sight at ATMs that have been tampered with by crooks who specialize in retrofitting the machines with card skimmers. But until this past week I'd ...
Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers
"Bluetana," a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapidly and accurately locate compromised fuel stations across the ...
Alleged Chief of Romanian ATM Skimming Gang Arrested in Mexico
An alleged top boss of a Romanian crime syndicate that U.S. authorities say is responsible for deploying card-skimming devices at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) throughout North America was arrested in Mexico last ...
Insert Skimmer + Camera Cover PIN Stealer
Very often the most clever component of your typical ATM skimming attack is the hidden pinhole camera used to record customers entering their PINs. These little video bandits can be hidden 100 ...
New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer Uses SMS and Bluetooth
Fraud investigators say they've uncovered a sophisticated new breed of credit card skimmers being installed at gas pumps that is capable of relaying stolen card data via mobile text message, thereby enabling ...
SMS Phishing + Cardless ATM = Profit
Thieves are combining SMS-based phishing attacks with new "cardless" ATMs to rapidly convert phished bank account credentials into cash. Recent arrests in Ohio shed light on how this scam works ...
Secret Service Warns of Surge in ATM ‘Wiretapping’ Attacks
The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a recent uptick in a form of ATM skimming that involves cutting cupcake-sized holes in a cash machine and then using a combination ...
