Ingenico skimmer

May 25, 2016

Skimmers Found at Walmart: A Closer Look

This post was originally published on this siteRecent local news stories about credit card skimmers found in self-checkout lanes at some Walmart locations reminds me of a criminal sales pitch I saw recently for overlay skimmers made specifically for the very same card terminals. Much like the skimmers found at some Safeway locations earlier this year, the skimming device pictured below was designed to be installed in the blink of an eye at self-checkout lanes — as in recent incidents at Walmart stores in Fredericksburg, Va. and Lexington, Ky. In these attacks, the skimmers were made to piggyback on card readers sold by payment […]
June 24, 2016

How to Spot Ingenico Self-Checkout Skimmers

This post was originally published on this siteA KrebsOnSecurity story last month about credit card skimmers found in self-checkout lanes at some Walmart locations got picked up by quite a few publications. Since then I’ve heard from several readers who work at retailers that use hundreds of thousands of these Ingenico credit card terminals across their stores, and all wanted to know the same thing: How could they tell if their self-checkout lanes were compromised? This post provides a few pointers. Happily, just days before my story point-of-sale vendor Ingenico produced a tutorial on how to spot a skimmer on self checkout lanes […]
October 14, 2016

Self-Checkout Skimmers Go Bluetooth

This post was originally published on this siteThis blog has featured several stories about payment card skimming devices designed to be placed over top of credit card terminals in self-checkout lanes at grocery stores and other retailers. Many readers have asked for more details about the electronics that power these so-called “overlay” skimmers. Here’s a look at one overlay skimmer  equipped with Bluetooth technology that allows thieves to snarf swiped card data and PINs wirelessly using nothing more than a mobile phone. The rather crude video below shows a Bluetooth enabled overlay skimmer crafted to be slipped directly over top of Ingenico […]