deep-insert skimmer

August 22, 2017

Dumping Data from Deep-Insert Skimmers

This post was originally published on this siteI recently heard from a police detective who was seeking help identifying some strange devices found on two Romanian men caught maxing out stolen credit cards at local retailers. Further inspection revealed the devices to be semi-flexible data transfer wands that thieves can use to extract stolen ATM card data from “deep-insert skimmers,” wafer-thin fraud devices made to be hidden inside of the card acceptance slot on a cash machine. The investigator agreed to share the photos if I kept his identity out of this story. He told KrebsOnSecurity that the two men were […]