Black box.

The iron boxes with money standing on city streets cannot but draw attention of fans of a fast profit. And if applied purely physical methods to emptying of ATMs earlier, then more and more skillful tricks connected with computers are used now. Now the most relevant of them is "a black box" with a one-paid microcomputer inside. About how it works, we also will talk in this article.

The chief of the international association of vendors of ATMs (ATMIA) selected "black boxes" as the most dangerous threat for ATMs.

The typical ATM is a set of already ready electromechanical components placed in one case. Vendors of ATMs build the iron creations of the device of issue of banknotes, the reader of cards and other components, – already developed by third-party suppliers. Such designer of LEGO for adults. Ready components are placed in the case of the ATM which usually consists of two compartments: the upper compartment ("office" or "service area"), and lower cut (safe). All electromechanical components are connected through USB and COM ports to the system unit which in this case carries out a host role. On old models of ATMs it is also possible to meet connections via the SDC bus.

Evolution of ATM carding

ATMs with the huge sums inside, steadily attract crankcases to themselves. At first crankcases operated only rough physical defects of protection of ATMs – used skimmers and shimmers for theft of data from magnetic bands; a counterfeit pin-pady and cameras for viewing of PIN codes; and even counterfeit ATMs.

Then, when ATMs began to be equipped with the unified software working according to uniform standards, such as XFS (eXtensions for Financial Services) – crankcases began to attack ATMs computer viruses.

Among them Trojan.Skimmer, Backdoor.Win32.Skimer, Ploutus, ATMii and other numerous named and anonymous malwares whom crankcases place on a host of the ATM or via the boot USB stick, or through TCP port of remote control.

Having taken a XFS subsystem, the virus can give commands to the device of issue of banknotes, without authorization. Or to give..............

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