Europol has confirmed the arrests of 27 people accused of being connected to a growing spate of “black box” attacks on bank ATMs.
The suspects were picked up in a number of countries in the last 18 months, with 11 arrests in France, four in Estonia, three each in Norway and the Czech Republic, and two each in Spain, Romania and the Netherlands, the organisation said.
At a time when global cybercrime’s attention has shifted to spectaculars such as the recent WannaCry Worm-ransomware, ATM heists in which criminals siphon money from hole-in-the-wall cash machines might seem like a relic from a bygone age.
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