Hacker Develops Multi-Platform Rootkit for ATMs
Barnaby Jack, a security researcher plans to give the talk, entitled Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines, at the Black Hat Las Vegas conference, held July 28 and 29, 2010.
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Mr Jack will demonstrate several ways of attacking ATM machines, including remote, network-based attacks. He will also reveal a “multi-platform ATM rootkit,” and will discuss things that the ATM industry can do to protect itself from such attacks. Jack doesn’t say which ATMs he plans to discuss, but it could be any major vendor, according to Black Hat Director Jeff Moss. “He’s got a living room full of a lot of different brands of ATMs, and they all seem to suffer from one or the other problem,” he said.
ATMs haven’t received a lot of serious scrutiny by security researchers, so Jack’s talk will break new ground.
