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Card skimmers are so last year. There’s been a huge rise in scammers directly hacking into cash machines to make them spit out money, whilst the use of card skimmers – small scanners that capture card details as someone uses an ATM, is in decline.
Malware scams and so-called logical attacks, where computers are plugged into a cash dispenser to command it to give up its loot, have risen by 230 per cent between 2016 and 2017, according to the European Association for Secure Transactions, which tracks ATM crime. This corresponded to…
