Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Data-sniffing trojans burrow into Eastern European ATMs
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> | Security experts have discovered a family of data-stealing trojans that
> | have burrowed into automatic teller machines in Eastern Europe over the
> | past 18 months.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The SpiderLabs report said only that the targeted ATMs ran on the
> | Windows XP operating system.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/atm_trojans/
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> Windows XP cash machines can steal your PIN
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> | The SpiderLabs team reports that it has been able to perform an analysis
> | of the malware, which had been discovered on compromised East European
> | cash machines running Windows XP.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | I understand that the malware can be installed, and activated, by way of
> | a Borland Delphi Rapid Application Development executable that replaces
> | the original isadmin.exe utility file. Executing this dropper produces
> | the malware file within the C:\WINDOWS directory of the machine.
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> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25484/1054/
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>
> Recent:
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> Windows Trojan on Diebold ATMs
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> | Vanja Svacjer, a virus expert for Sophos, has reported his latest find
> | in a blog entry: a Trojan that spies on PINs. The difference is that
> | this example specialises in cash dispensers made by Diebold, which run
> | Windows.
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> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/134842
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> Related:
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> PINs stolen from Citibank ATMs
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> | The alleged thieves made off with about $2 million between October 2007
> | until March of this year. Officials believe they remotely broke into the
> | back-end computers that approve cash withdrawals and grabbed the PINs as
> | they were being transmitted from the ATMs to the transaction processing
> | computers, which increasingly use Windows, the report says.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982500-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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> Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
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> | ATMs, or automated teller machines, today face the Internet-born threat
> | of worms and denial-of-service attacks, as well as being at risk from
> | malicious applications that can harvest customer data or hijack
> | machines.
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> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6233030.html
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>
> Bots rule in cyberspace
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> | USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
> | computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam,
> | viruses and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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>
> Brazilian banks look to Linux for ATMs
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> | Brazilian banking giant Banco do Brasil this year is preparing to start
> | a massive migration of one of the world?s biggest ATM fleets to the
> | GNU/Linux operating system.
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> http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article.php?id=9929&prc=12&page=42
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>
> Madness: ATMs Running Windows XP?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/madness-atms-running-windows-xp.html
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> Pictures of ATM Machine Running Windows XP Crashing
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> | The other day I pulled up to an ATM and it was in the middle of crashing
> | and so I was able to shoot these pics during the crash and reboot. The
> | ATM never did come up fully so I was unable to get some cash.
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http://www.socialdailynews.com/2007/09/pictures-of-atm-machine-running-windows-xp-crashing/
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> ATM using un-activated Windows
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> | Ok, so lets be realistic for a moment here, first off, is 'Hackers Best
> | Friend" MS Windows really the optimal choice for an operating system
> | that spits out cash?
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http://www.itdrive.com/articles/177/1/ATM-using-un-activated-Windows/Page1.html
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> ATM with Pirated Windows [with photos]
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> | In Russian you can sometimes meet pirated copy of Windows even
> | on ATM. It warns that this copy of Windows need activation and
> | the work of ATM gets interrupted.
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> http://englishrussia.com/?p=981#more-981
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> http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo06091944fe5.jpg
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> Why not Embedded? ATM's Running XP Professional...
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> | This time, I happened to be there when it suddenly BSOD'd and began a
> | reboot cycle. Obviously, to BSOD it needs to run Windows, and moments
> | later, that was confirmed. But that's not the story here -- believe it
> | or not, most ATMs run Windows nowadays, and there's absoloutely nothing
> | wrong with that.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | There's a million reasons why an ATM should must be RTOS, be it Linux or
> | VxWorks or Windows CE, but even if you don't go with RTOS, Windows XP
> | Professional most certainly isn't the answer. Especially if it's not
> | even SP2.
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> http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287
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> ATMs hacked using MP3 player
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> | A criminal gang in the U.K. was able to steal confidential banking
> | data by bugging ATMs with an MP3 player, The Times of London
> | reported in its online edition Thursday.
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Thanks for posting this.... I've complained bitterly to my bank about how
insecure their OS choice is and I've complained bitterly how exposed my
personal data is on their windows servers and clients...
I'll be sure to rub their noses in this too...
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