Isaac Rafael Jorge Romero

January 30, 2018

Drugs Tripped Up Suspects In First Known ATM “Jackpotting” Attacks in the US

This post was originally published on this siteOn Jan. 27, 2018, KrebsOnSecurity published what this author thought a scoop about the first known incidence of U.S. ATMs being hit with “jackpotting” attacks, a crime in which thieves deploy malware that forces cash machines to spit out money like a loose Las Vegas slot machine. As it happens, the first known jackpotting attacks in the United States were reported in November 2017 by local media on the west coast, although the reporters in those cases seem to have completely buried the lede. Isaac Rafael Jorge Romero, Jose Alejandro Osorio Echegaray, and […]