Data Compromise
The scale of the US based RBS WorldPay data beach dominated the beginning of February with reports that around $9million was obtained fraudulently from ATMs in a short time window of 30 minutes. In addition...
Skimming
Police in Canada arrested a group thought to be behind a significant skimming operation. Along with high value luxury goods and re-encoded cards, equipment used to compromise cards and PINs at ATMs were recovered...
Vishing / Phishing / Funds Transfer Fraud
Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau arrested 40 suspects in a NT$20 million funds transfer fraud scheme. The perpetrators pretended to be customer service ...
Ram Raid Attacks / ATM Theft
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have appealed to the public for help following a significant number of ram raid incidents that occurred in North Okanagan, Canada since May 2008 and into 2009...
Explosive Attacks
Police in Australia have made further arrests of suspects believed to be involved in ATM explosive attacks using explosive gas. Attacks and attempted attacks continued in February including at least one incident whereby one of the suspects is believed to have been injured by the explosion...
Manipulation / Transaction Reversal Fraud
A suspect managed to manipulate an ATM at a casino in the US which caused the machine to dispense a significant number of notes...
Card Trapping / Card Theft
Card trapping using Lebanese Loops continued to be detected in February, particularly in the UK...
Leaving Transaction Live
The US has experienced a re-emergence of a less well known ATM fraud known as ‘leaving transaction live’...
False Deposit Fraud
Banks which allow immediate withdrawals against deposited cheques (checks) continued to be targeted in February...
Read the full report of the Monthly Digest for February 2009, click here.
The above digest is provided by DFR Risk Management, who provide consultancy services advising ATM and self-service terminal deployers, manufacturers as well as law enforcement agencies on how to manage ATM and self-service terminal fraud and security threats.
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