Eight leading Taiwanese banks have suspended 900 ATMs after it was revealed that Russian criminals used malware to steal $2.180.000 during duration of the weekend.
According to the Straits Times, the robberies took place on Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10, 2016, and targeted the ATMs of its branches bankFirst Bank of Taiwan in the cities of Taipei and Taichung.
After the incident, the Bank of Taiwan, Chang Hwa Bank and five other banking institutions announced the suspension of ATM transactions to check for malware.
The villains have so far been targeted by ATMs by Wincor Nixdorf, a German company that manufactures hardware for ATMs around the world.
According to focus taiwan, authorities investigating the case said that of the video surveillance found that two people wearing hats and masks visited all the ATMs, withdrew cash from each one and then put it in backpacks they had with them.
Because the ATMs seemed to give money χωρίς δυσκολία, οι αρχές πιστεύουν ότι κάποιο κακόβουλο software was somehow responsible for the robbery. They also suspect that the fraudsters may have had a partner from inside the bank who facilitated the installation of the malware. They report that they have managed to locate one of the fraudsters, who is a Russian citizen and has left the country since Monday, July 11.
