Hackers steal more than $1.2 million from 17 Automated Teller Machine(ATMs) in Malaysia
A Latin American gang of cyber criminals were able to exploit a
way to hack and steal millions of dollars from 17 ATM in Malaysia.
ATMs of at least 17 bank branches belonging to United Overseas
Bank, Affin Bank, All Rajhi Bank and Bank of Islam were reportedly hacked into
by the Latin American gang.
Closed-Circuit Television(CCTV) footage from the banks showed that
2-3 Latin American men, who were involved in the crime, entered and withdraw
money from these ATM's one after another.
Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department chief Comm
Datuk Mortadza told Bernama that the suspects used a computer malware known as
"ulssm.exe" to hack into the ATMs. "The suspects were found to
have opened the top panel of the machine without using a key and inserted a
compact disk into the machine's processing centre which caused the ATM's system
to reboot," he told Bernama, Tuesday morning, The Star reported.
A Selangor Commercial Crime Ivestigation Department spokesman said
that investigations is still going on. In the meantime police were able to
recover one of the ATM cards which was used by the hackers to withdraw the
money.
Since it was the ATM which was rebooted to default, no customer
data was compromised in the hack, police are investigating the scene and
believes the gang members are still in the country.
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