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Cyber Risks · Krebs on Security

Cash Claws, Fake Fascias & Tampered Tickets

Summary: European anti-fraud experts report skimming devices appearing on train ticket kiosks, parking meters and other unattended payment terminals, with at least five countries reporting attacks on railway or transport ticket machines and two reporting attacks on parking machines. The European ATM Security Team also tracks fake ATM fascias with working screens and built-in skimmers and keypads, cash-trapping attacks in eight countries, and Bluetooth use to transmit stolen card and PIN data wirelessly.

Bottom line: EAST reports that most card fraud from European skimming is perpetrated outside Europe - particularly in the United States, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Thailand - because chip-and-PIN is not yet widely supported in the U.S., so stolen European card data is shipped there and encoded onto fabricated cards to pull cash from U.S. ATMs.

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