The US Secret Service is warning of an ATM attack that lets perpetrators withdraw large sums of money.<\/p>\n
According to Krebs on Security<\/strong><\/a>, the attack – called a jackpot hack – forces an ATM to dish out large sums of cash.<\/p>\n Diebold’s front-loading Opteva ATMs are the primary target, and attackers often dress as\u00a0technicians to conduct the attacks, stated the report.<\/p>\n The attack uses a laptop with a\u00a0mirror image of the ATM’s operating system, along with a malware program.<\/p>\n The mirrored OS is paired with the ATM after a “reset” button inside the machine is found and pressed.<\/p>\n A keyboard is then attached to the ATM and its funds are withdrawn.<\/p>\n The Secret Service warned that ATMs still using Windows XP were easy targets.<\/p>\n The US Secret Service has warned about the “jackpot” ATM attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":202028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6693,14575],"class_list":["post-246663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-atm","tag-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246667,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246663\/revisions\/246667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Malwarebytes update spikes memory usage<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"