Security Expert Brian Krebs Gives a Heads-Up on Using ATMs When Visiting Mexico Paul McNamara - Network World
go to original September 27, 2015

Brian Krebs explains how cyber thieves rigged the ATMs (All DailyMail)

Security expert Brian Krebs, who has made a specialty of exposing ATM scams over the years, has a doozy of a three-part series uncovering a widespread scheme in Mexico based on sophisticated Bluetooth technology and old-fashioned cash bribes.

In part one, Krebs describes being tipped off by an employee of a Mexican ATM company, explains how the scam works – bribe-enabled physical access to the machines is key - and embarks on a trip to Cancun to attempt to gauge the scope of the illegal operation first-hand.

Part two reads like a detective novel as Krebs moves about Mexican tourist establishments checking for a telltale Bluetooth signal emanating from ATMs. He has no trouble finding them.

And in the third installment Krebs builds a circumstantial yet convincing case that one particular ATM company – new and peculiarly difficult to contact – may be a front for this criminal operation.

Read the rest at Network World

Related: Experts Warn Against Malware That Can Drain Accounts of ATM Users in Mexico (ABC News)

Related: New Malware Infects ATMs, Dispenses Cash on Command (Computerworld)

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