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Cybergang Compromises Every ATM In Russian City

Posted by timothy on from the equal-opportunity dept.

Orome1 writes "A group of fraudsters has been arrested in Yakutsk and Moscow for allegedly compromising all the ATMs in the city of Yakutsk — population: around 210,000 — in the Republic of Yakutia in the Russian Federation. Three of the men formed the actual criminal group, and the fourth — a Moscow-based malware developer — was 'subcontracted' by them and received 100,000 rubles (some $3200) to develop a custom ATM virus with which they would infect the devices."

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  1. Cybergangs? by deadhammer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why aren't they just a "gang"? Is it because this crime has to do with technology and is, therefore, magically different than any other crime? If these guys had robbed all the banks in the city the traditional way, we wouldn't call them a "bankgang" or a "robberygang", would we? If they skimmed money the traditional way (bribes and scams) would we call them a "financegang"?

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  2. This needs to happen more often by dingen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe then the world will learn not to run Windows on these kind of devices.

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    1. Re:This needs to happen more often by Walter+White · · Score: 5, Insightful

      My roots as an MS hater go back to DOS long before Windows. And I disagree with your claim.

      Given access from by the former head of IT, it would be feasible to engineer a compromise for any OS. If they had physical access, anything is possible. Perhaps they even had access to the dev environment which was used to program the machines.