Brian Krebs 1 February 2013 (krebsonsecurity)
Every so often, the sophistication of the technology being built into credit card skimmers amazes even the experts who are accustomed to studying such crimeware. This post focuses on one such example — images from one of several compromised point-of-sale devices that
used Bluetooth technology to send the stolen data to the fraudsters wirelessly.
In October 2012, forensics experts with Trustwave Spiderlabs were called in to examine the handiwork of several Bluetooth based point-of-sale skimmers found at a major U.S. retailer. The skimmers described and pictured in this blog post were retrieved from a retail breach that has not yet been disclosed, said Jonathan Spruill, a security consultant at Trustwave.
Spruill said the card-skimming devices that had been added to the small point-of-sale machines was
beyond anything he’d encountered in skimmer technology to date.
“The stuff we’ve been seeing lately is a l
eap forward in these types of crimes,” said Spruill, a former special agent with the U.S. Secret Service. “You hate to say you admire the work, but at some point you say, ‘Wow, that’s pretty clever.’ From a technical and hardware standpoint, this was really well thought-out.”
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