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Flaws in Ubiquitous ATM Software Could Have Let Attackers Take Over Cash Machines

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Independent researcher Matt Burch is presenting findings related to the “financial” or “enterprise” ATMs used in banks and other large institutions.

He is demonstrating six vulnerabilities in ATM -maker Diebold Nixdorf’s widely deployed security solution, known as Vynamic Security Suite.

The vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to bypass an unpatched ATM 's hard drive encryption and take full control of the machine.

“An unrehearsed execution would not be easy to do. But it's absolutely feasible if you know what you’re looking at. Similar attacks have been executed in under 10 minutes . Organized crime is presumably training people in how to do these attacks. ”As long as attackers are finding success and making money from ATM cash-out attacks, there will be Defcon talks about what the next frontiers of ATM hacking may look like..

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