Discoverd a virus capable of stealing ATMs

The new threat looming over ATM is called Ploutus and , apparently , has been created to target Spanish-speaking areas .


It is not the first time that cybercriminals venture into the world of ATMs, but the alarms are triggered whenever malware is targeting these devices .
Ploutus

And is that security experts fear the attacks through this route , really dangerous for his activity and scope, these were increased in the coming years .

The latest example is Ploutus , a virus that facilitates the extraction of money from their connection to the keyboard and the introduction of a touch panel which determines the amount to stealing .

This control panel is configured in Castilian so Kaspersky Lab, which is who has reported its existence , suspects that this piece of malicious software has been designed to operate only Spanish-speaking areas . In fact his trail has been detected in Mexico .

Its two most prominent are particularities of a code that needs to be activated and interacts without problems with teller services .

This suggests that Ploutous " was developed with knowledge of the operation of these systems " point from Kaspersky . " In addition, the infection vector system is via a bootable CD- ROM so that it requires physical access to the computer to compromise ," they add .