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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. 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.

  2. Re:Use Russian ATMs? Really? by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've used ATMs all over the Soviet Union, from the metropolises like Moscow and Almaty to provincial capitals hit hard by job loss and economic migration away. I've never experienced theft of my bank card details. The crime carried out in Yakutsk is not a widespread problem in Russia. To be honest, I'd be more worried using my card in the US when stories keep coming out like those gas pumps that had been tampered with, though again that's probably the media just blowing it out of proportion.