Security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware called Backdoor.ATM.Suceful that infects ATMs and can steal your banking information.
Discovered by security firm FireEye Labs, malware directly targeted cardholders rather than banks. The virus can run on multiple types of ATM, including those made by Diebold and NRC, and is claimed to provide a powerful range of disturbing characteristics. In particular, FireLab emphasizes that the software can read the data from the glide strip and chip of a card, enter the encrypted PIN, delete the automatic sensors to avoid detection and to keep the map of user in the machine. Full enough, then.
FireEye identified the malware after it was transferred to the online tool VirusTotal. Stamped with a creation date of 25 August 2015, the researchers believe that the malware may still be in the development phase. Indeed, Backdoor.ATM.Suceful has not been observed in the wild. But given its characteristics in combination have "never seen before in ATM malware" it would not be too long before he slips into ATMs - in Russia or elsewhere.
While it is impossible to know whether an ATM is affected by malicious software by simply looking at it, FireLab's advice is to "keep the contact number for your bank in your phone and call while keeping eyes to the ATM "if your card is retained And if you notice anything suspicious at an ATM, do not use it - just walk away.
Discovered by security firm FireEye Labs, malware directly targeted cardholders rather than banks. The virus can run on multiple types of ATM, including those made by Diebold and NRC, and is claimed to provide a powerful range of disturbing characteristics. In particular, FireLab emphasizes that the software can read the data from the glide strip and chip of a card, enter the encrypted PIN, delete the automatic sensors to avoid detection and to keep the map of user in the machine. Full enough, then.
FireEye identified the malware after it was transferred to the online tool VirusTotal. Stamped with a creation date of 25 August 2015, the researchers believe that the malware may still be in the development phase. Indeed, Backdoor.ATM.Suceful has not been observed in the wild. But given its characteristics in combination have "never seen before in ATM malware" it would not be too long before he slips into ATMs - in Russia or elsewhere.
While it is impossible to know whether an ATM is affected by malicious software by simply looking at it, FireLab's advice is to "keep the contact number for your bank in your phone and call while keeping eyes to the ATM "if your card is retained And if you notice anything suspicious at an ATM, do not use it - just walk away.
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