Eight top Taiwan banks have suspended 900 ATMs after revealing that Russian villains used malware to steal 2.180.000 dollars over the weekend.
According to the Straits Times, robberies took place on Saturday and Sunday, 9 and 10 in July 2016, targeting the ATMs of the branches of First Bank of Taiwan in 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 from the videos monitoringς διαπιστώθηκε ότι δύο άτομα φορώντας καπέλα και masks they visited all the ATMs, withdrew cash from each one and then put it in backpacks they had with them.
Because the ATMs appeared to dispense money without difficulty, authorities believe someone malicious software was somehow responsible for the heist. 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.
