A gang of criminals has stolen nearly £1.6m in raids on ATM (Automated Teller Machines) in UK. The group used a malware to compromise more than 50 ATMs.
According to the police, a group of Romanian criminals has stolen nearly £1.6 million in series of jackpotting attacks. The technique of the jack spotting was presented for the first time by the popular hacker Barnaby Jack in 2010 and it consists in a method to force ATMs to spit out cash. (Barnaby Jack is dead of an accidental drug overdose according the results provided by the San Francisco’s medical examiner’s office.)The investigation allowed the identification of a couple of suspects, which are members of a larger gang composed by individuals for Eastern Europe. The British police believe that the group of criminals is composed mainly by Romanian and Moldovan.
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