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Automated teller machines (ATMs) are increasingly under attack. Gone are the days of the ram car, but now the thieves are armed with a computer … This is called the jackpot: server takeover, especially by hackers installed abroad.
In the unique little village of Seymour Ticket Distributor He was out of service for a month. It was attacked by hackers. They worked in the middle of the night, three weeks ago. Armed with a drill, they cut a piece off the front of the distributor to gain access to its programs. Then they connected to a laptop, and sent the data from the bank to a partner located several thousand kilometers away. The latter took his hand, and emptied the device.
The issue is not isolated: in recent weeks similar attacks have been repeated in the north and the Paris region, and then in the Bordeaux and Alps regions. Police and gendarmerie have observed 34 attacks on distributors in the past six months. The way it works is complicated. It is almost impossible to identify brains, intruders. “The contractors are Russian-speaking. On the other hand, the expected teams are numerous and varied with personnel who can be of several nationalities”Cecile Augeraud, head of the Central Office for Combating Computer Crimes (OCLCTIC), explains. They always lose at night, in rural areas, and away from the police.
