’Follow the money’ is a very useful phrase when working with financial institutions. It´s a rather common misperception that there are money everywhere in a bank. Most data that flows is mainly different kind of confirmation or personal data that is not connected the highly regulated transaction flows. In one end of the money flow sit the ATMs. The networks nowadays are highly controlled and it is a struggle to get to control a trojan you managed to install on an ATM. So how do you manage that then? You of course use a credit card. ?
A specially crafted credit card lets you open up the management window and do whatever you need to do with the Trojan, like looking at statistics, delete logs etc. Some interesting pictures and a story how it works could be read here
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