Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @03:41PM from the atm-russia-you-do-the-math dept.

angry tapir writes "Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber-criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software. Diebold learned of the incident in January and sent out a global security update to its ATM customers using the Windows operating system. It is not releasing full details of what happened, including which businesses were affected, but said criminals had gained physical access to the machines to install their malicious program. Arrests have reportedly been made."

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Maybe there could be gov. regulation of ATM design by Futurepower(R) · 2009-03-17 15:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

There is a Diebold ATM machine in Brazil, São Paulo state, that regularly crashes. When it crashes, you can see that it is running Microsoft Windows 98.

That amazes me. It seems that even someone with very little understanding would not use an OS that is known to have literally thousands of vulnerabilities.