How hackers can jackpot an ATM

Alex Mathews is lead security evangelist EMEA for Positive Technologies – a global provider of enterprise security solutions for vulnerability and compliance management, incident and threat analysis, and application protection (www.ptsecurity.com). 

Last November, Russian cybersecurity firm Group IB reported that hackers known as ‘Cobalt’ had attacked the ATMs of unnamed banks across Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Alex Mathews explains the heists and how to manage the threat.