Hitachi breach cited as source of major ATM malware attack in India

February 21, 2017

In late 2016, Indian media outlets widely reported an ATM malware attack that compromised between 3.2 million and 6.5 million debit cards from several of the…

Data breaches take a big jump in 2016, study finds

February 8, 2017

The number of U.S. data breaches, tracked by the Identity Theft Resource Center, hit an all-time high of 1,093, according to a new report from the ITRC and…

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Authorities take down international ATM jackpotting gang

February 1, 2017

Law enforcement agencies in Europe and Asia, supported by the Europol European Cybercrime Center, have arrested five members of an international criminal…

ABA draws a positive picture of US EMV migration

January 31, 2017

A new infographic from the American Bankers Association shows consumers are "unquestionably safer" now than they were before the widespread adoption of EMV.

EAST welcomes national member for Indonesia

January 27, 2017

The European ATM Security Team has announced the addition of a national member from Indonesia, Fraud Banking Investigation Halo BCA, a division of Bank Central…

No rocket science required: 3 ways ATM deployers can defeat Ploutus-D malware

by Aravinda Korala — CEO, KAL

Any one of three commonsense safeguards can immunize an ATM against Ploutus-D. And one more precautionary measure can make it far more difficult for criminals…

ATM security starts at the top

Successful planning and policy-making for ATM security starts at C-level, not sea level. Why? Because buy-in rarely builds from the bottom up, and word about…

Ploutus ATM malware is back — and badder than ever

January 17, 2017

Ploutus, the advanced ATM malware that was first discovered in Mexico in 2013, is back in an updated and even more dangerous form, according to FireEye, a…

Passwords are out, 'persistent identity' is in

January 17, 2017

A new research report from Mercator Advisory Group, Biometrics: A New Wrinkle Changes the Authentication Landscape, looks at the fundamentals of biometrics and…

The mobile banking dilemma: Android platform leads Apple iOS for better — and worse

January 9, 2017

Statista, a provider of quantitative research tools and statistics, has published its rankings of computer operating system vulnerabilities.

ATM fraud in the age of EMV

While credit unions, banks and other ATM owners and operators continue to migrate their machines to EMV technology, the question remains: Will EMV ultimately…

Criminal masterminds, they're not

January 6, 2017

This week, the San Diego Tribune reported on the sentencing of Alvin Lee Neal, who will spend up to three years and 10 months in prison for robbing a downtown…

Security information, event management systems essential in thwarting ATM cyberattacks

January 6, 2017

Cybersecurity company Positive Technologies has received kudos from Intel Security for detecting a serious vulnerability (described in a Dec. 1 security…

PSCU members report 20 percent drop in fraud post-EMV

January 4, 2017

PSCU, a Florida-based credit union service organization, is reporting a 20 percent reduction in payment card fraud among its member-owner organizations since…

Fewer industry stakeholders seeing rise in ATM crime, study finds

January 3, 2017

The ATM Industry Association has released the results of its 2016 annual fraud survey results. In a key finding, the study charted a year-over-year decline…

Mumbai e-surveillance firm to secure 6K bank-owned ATMs

December 27, 2016

Mumbai-based Zicom Electonic Security Systems Ltd. has contracted to provide e-surveillance architecture serving 6,000 bank-owned ATM locations, with contracts…

Alice in ATM-land: Security company identifies dangerous new malware threat

December 22, 2016

Trend Micro, a security software company based in Los Angeles, has discovered Alice, a new family of ATM malware that the company described in its blog as "the…

Criminals responsible for eastern European ATM hack 'will become active in the West soon,' report warns

December 19, 2016

London-based cybersecurity company Positive Technologies has released findings from its investigation into an incident in which hackers were able to steal the…

A whole new level of ATM PIN protection

December 19, 2016

There are two kinds of ATM PIN users in this world — "shielders" and "show" people.