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バンクーバー 2019/12/05 08:06:28
What Are Skimmers?
Skimmers are essentially malicious card readers attached to the real payment terminals so that they can harvest data from every person that swipes their cards. The thief often has to come back to the compromised machine to pick up the file containing all the stolen data, but with that information in hand he can create cloned cards or just break into bank accounts to steal money. Perhaps the scariest part is that skimmers often don't prevent the ATM or credit card reader from functioning properly, making them harder to detect.
Classic skimming attacks are here to stay, and will likely continue to be a problem even now that banks have made the shift to EMV chip cards, according to Stefan Tanase, a security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. Even if the cards have a chip, the data will still be on the card's magnetic strip to be backwards compatible with systems that can't handle the chip, he told us. Even now, long after the U.S. rollout of EMV cards, some merchants still require customers to use the magstripe.
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