The Interior Ministry concerned about the intensification of Russia’s criminal cyber-gangs, devastating ATMs with a new computer virus Tyupkin, write “News».
First, open the criminals ATM service unit and introduced a program that infects a computer virus Tyupkin . When the unit is filled with money, the attackers activated from the keyboard of the ATM access the service menu and give the command to the issuance of all bills.
The virus Tyupkin appeared in the spring of last year, and is widely used in Russia, Europe, USA and China. The Interior Ministry reported that a malicious program has become popular in the domestic criminals – is already known about a few dozen robberies ATMs under this scheme.
attacks are usually subject to widespread ATMs running Microsoft Windows XP. Tyupkin virus has several modifications. Some versions are also involved in skimming – read data from the magnetic stripe cards of citizens and remember PIN-codes, while others allow you to destroy and erase the traces Tyupkin video.
As a rule, the virus affected Tyupkin serve the banks themselves. In an ATM is placed in an average of 10 million rubles, so the damage to the banks could be significant.
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