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, 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, Bank of Taiwan, Chang Hwa Bank and five other banking institutions announced the suspension of ATM transactions to check them 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, the investigating authorities said monitoring videos found that two people wearing hats and masks visited all the ATMs, handed out cash from each of them and then put them in their backpacks.
Επειδή τα ΑΤΜ φάνηκε να δίνουν χρήματα χωρίς δυσκολία, οι αρχές πιστεύουν ότι κάποιο κακόβουλο λογισμικό ήταν κατά κάποιο τρόπο υπεύθυνο για την ληστεία. Υποψιάζονται επίσης ότι οι απατεώνες πιθανά να είχαν συνεργάτη από το εσωτερικό της τράπεζας, ο οποίος διευκόλυνε την εγκατάσταση του κακόβουλου software. 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.
