{"id":97523,"date":"2019-10-16T22:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-malware-makes-atms-spit-out-all-their-money"},"modified":"2019-10-16T22:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:50:38","slug":"this-malware-makes-atms-spit-out-all-their-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-malware-makes-atms-spit-out-all-their-money","title":{"rendered":"This Malware Makes ATMs Spit Out All Their Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-malware-makes-atms-spit-out-all-their-money2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers equipped with black market software are targeting cash machines with dated software and substandard security and walking away with millions over the course of a series of attacks, according to a collaborative investigation by Motherboard and German newsroom Bayerischer Rundfunk. Though law enforcement agencies are tightlipped about the trend, it\u2019s a sign that banks may be surprisingly vulnerable to cybercrime.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Other sources, granted anonymity by <em>Motherboard,<\/em> described the same trend: \u201cThere are attacks happening, but a lot of the time it\u2019s not publicized,\u201d said one.<\/p>\n<p><b>Plug-And-Play<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The German attacks and others throughout Europe seem to be carried out with Russian software called Cutlet Maker, which <em>Motherboard<\/em> reports can be bought for $1,000. In the U.S., a program called Ploutus. D is more popular.<\/p>\n<p>Both programs can be installed into ATMs through a USB or other physical access point \u2014 though the hackers usually need to break into the ATM\u2019s hardware to access it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers equipped with black market software are targeting cash machines with dated software and substandard security and walking away with millions over the course of a series of attacks, according to a collaborative investigation by Motherboard and German newsroom Bayerischer Rundfunk. Though law enforcement agencies are tightlipped about the trend, it\u2019s a sign that banks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,45,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-economics","category-finance","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}