NCR Corp – Network Securitas

May 5, 2016

Crooks Go Deep With ‘Deep Insert’ Skimmers

This post was originally published on this siteATM maker NCR Corp. says it is seeing a rapid rise in reports of what it calls “deep insert skimmers,” wafer-thin fraud devices made to be hidden inside of the card acceptance slot on a cash machine. KrebsOnSecurity’s All About Skimmers series has featured several stories about insert skimmers. But the ATM manufacturer said deep insert skimmers are different from typical insert skimmers because they are placed in various positions within the card reader transport, behind the shutter of a motorized card reader and completely hidden from the consumer at the front of […]

June 13, 2016

ATM Insert Skimmers In Action

This post was originally published on this site13Jun 16 ATM Insert Skimmers In Action KrebsOnSecurity has featured several recent posts on “insert skimmers,” ATM skimming devices made to fit snugly and invisibly inside a cash machine’s card acceptance slot. I’m revisiting the subject again because I’ve recently acquired how-to videos produced by two different insert skimmer peddlers, and these silent movies show a great deal more than words can tell about how insert skimmers do their dirty work. Last month I wrote about an alert from ATM giant NCR Corp., which said it was seeing an increase in cash machines compromised by what […]

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 […]

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 […]