ATM Insert Skimmers In Action
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity published vendor sales videos showing how insert skimmers fit inside an ATM's card acceptance slot, with separate tools sold to install and retrieve them. NCR's Charlie Harrow said the first insert skimmers were fat and card-width, while newer ones are much thinner and sit where the magnetic stripe reader is, and the same seller offers a hidden camera in a false overhead panel to capture PINs.
Key Takeaway: Skimmed card data only yields cash when thieves also get the PIN, and hidden cameras are the most common method across the more than three dozen ATM skimming incidents Krebs has covered, yet few customers cover the keypad when entering digits.
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