Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Cash machines
robbed with infected USB sticks.
Creating highly sophisticated
malicious software and install it to a physical memory device like a USB, take
it to an ATM of a European bank like UBS to withdraw cash. The person who is trying
to steal money with this method has to take a risk to physically expose him or
herself to the security camera to do the job. Does it sound high tech?
Probably this is
just one of the examples that criminal programmers do to make their living.
They could develop and install such programs to numbers of USBs and sell them
to whoever wishes to take a risk, maybe with an advance payment or a second
code to make sure the payment is going to be made once money is withdrawn. Sounds
like ordinary businesses that involve payment collection risks.
Enjoy reading and
learning about a business model to withdraw cash from ATMs.
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