Crooks Go Deep With ‘Deep Insert’ Skimmers
Summary: NCR Corp. reports a rapid rise in 'deep insert skimmers,' wafer-thin devices hidden inside the card reader transport behind the shutter of motorized readers, which NCR says its own Skimming Protection Solution and other anti-skimming jammers and detectors cannot prevent. NCR says it has received reports of these devices on ATMs from all manufacturers in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, and is testing a firmware update to detect insertion and send an alert.
Why it matters: NCR states plainly that neither its Skimming Protection Solution nor other anti-skimming devices can stop skimming with these deep insert skimmers, because the device sits well inside the card reader away from the detectors and jammers - so fleets across nine countries are exposed until a firmware fix ships.
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