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Security researchers have found malware planted on ATMs in Eastern Europe that captures PINs and magnetic stripe data from the machine's memory and instructs the machines to spit out cash, eliminating the need for primitive skimming devices and advancing the tradecraft of card thieves to a new level.
"This malware is unlike any we have ever had experience with," said Nick Percoco in a statement. Percoco is vice president and head of Trustwave's SpiderLabs Incident Response Team, based in Chicago, which was called in to investigate the matter this last spring.
The malware was foun…
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