A thin ATM skimming device like a razor is discovered

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Extract and duplicate the information on the magnetic cardSkimmingDamage caused by fraudulent withdrawal of deposits from accounts of financial institutions is occurring all over the world by the financial institution, and its technique has become sophisticated year by year. A thin skimming device was discovered like a razor that was newly laid out at bank ATM.

Stealthy, Razor Thin ATM Insert Skimmers - Krebs on Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/stealthy-razor-thin-atm-insert-skimmers/

A former journalist in the Washington Post newspaper and a reporterBrian KrebsMr. Kim made public the picture of "ATM skimmer like ATM skimming machine" which was "thin like a razor" attached to a bank in Southern Europe, and reveals the actual condition of skimming damage.

This time ATM skimming device (skimmer) found in a certain country in southern Europe. You can see that it is thinner than the right coin.


Looking from the side like this.


This ATM skimmer seems to be moving with a button battery (lithium battery) as a power source. From the soldering of the copper wire from the button battery, it is obvious that it is handmade with considerably "rough" making. But if you turn backwards, you can make ATM skimmers handmade without special equipment.


The part surrounded by the red circle on the left of the photo is the scanner part that reads the magnetic information of the card and the green chip on the right side of the photo is the board with memory to store the read data.


The security research companyEASTAccording to 2013, damages such as transfer fraud decreased by 5% compared to the previous year, whereas damage caused by ATM skimming increased by 9% and damaged by 21%.


If it is an extremely thin ATM skimmer as found this time, it can be installed inside the ATM's card slot, so it seems almost impossible to see the possibility of skimming from the appearance of ATM. Therefore, the most important thing to prevent skimming damage is switching from a magnetic type cash card to an IC chip type cash card.

Many countries in Europe adopt a cash card with an EMV chip for skimming prevention, but this time, like a south-european bank that opened a photo of skimmers subject to anonymity, a magnetic type cash card There are also some banks in use, and not only in Asia and South America but also in the United States of a skimming damaged power country, there are many banks that adopt magnetic cards.

In addition to using cards with IC chips, an effective method for preventing damages caused by ATM skimming is to cover the fingers from the top, assuming the case of stealing in the password input work, taking a picture of the code input Mr. Krebs advises that it is not to let it go, and avoid using ATM of unknown land.