atm shimming

January 27, 2017

ATM ‘Shimmers’ Target Chip-Based Cards

This post was originally published on this siteSeveral readers have called attention to warnings coming out of Canada about a supposedly new form of ATM skimming called “shimming” that targets chip-based credit and debit cards. Shimming attacks are not new (KrebsOnSecurity first wrote about them in August 2015), but they are likely to become more common as a greater number of banks in the United States shift to issuing chip-based cards. Here’s a brief primer on shimming attacks, and why they succeed. Several shimmers recently found inside Canadian ATMs. Source: RCMP. Most skimming devices made to steal credit card data do […]