Manually Installed Virus Steals PIN Codes from ATMs

MINA Breaking News - Trojan virus steals PIN codes from ATMs

The Russian Dr. Web IT company warns of new computer virus stealing PIN codes from ATMs. The virus collects information on credit cards, and releases it to a fraud on demand, the company’s press service informs.

The Trojan.Skimer virus accumulates credit cards data, including PIN codes. A fraud gains an offing to approach an ATM and get a listing of credit card numbers and PIN codes used. It's the first known malware that affects ATMs and can produce damage directly to banks' customers.  According to Dr. Web, spreading of the virus became possible only with a help of banks' or ATMs' software developers' staff.

ATMs are NOT connected to the Internet therefore they demand manual installation of malware.

Editor's Note:  So I guess that means you should NOT connect an ATM application (PIN #'s) to the internet.  Otherwise Malware could infect the application.  Hmmmm.....

Sounds like a familiar argument. 

Here's more information: Trojan.Skimer is a trojan created for ATM machines. Trojan.Skimercan open a backdoor ports and steal confidential information such astransaction logs and PIN of users.Systems Affected: Windows - All