Cash dispensers face new kinds of attacks

The attacks have also been noticed in many other European countries recently.

Illustrative stock photoIllustrative stock photo (Source: Sme)

Financial institutions operating cash registers produced by the Diebold Nixdorf company, including those in Slovakia, are threatened with a new type of attack.

Moreover, the devices that lack an updated system cannot resist the attacks, the cybersecurity company AEC reported.

SkryťTurn off ads
Article continues after video advertisement
SkryťTurn off ads
Article continues after video advertisement

The attacks have been recently noted in other European countries as well, the SITA newswire reported.

False commands to ATMs

The rest of this article is premium content at Spectator.sk
Subscribe now for full access

I already have subscription - Sign in

Subscription provides you with:
  • Immediate access to all locked articles (premium content) on Spectator.sk
  • Special weekly news summary + an audio recording with a weekly news summary to listen to at your convenience (received on a weekly basis directly to your e-mail)
  • PDF version of the latest issue of our newspaper, The Slovak Spectator, emailed directly to you
  • Access to all premium content on Sme.sk and Korzar.sk

Top stories

Over the weekend, several centimetres of snow, the first bigger cover of the season, fell in the High Tatras.

Winter offers best conditions.


Peter Filip
New projects will change the skyline of Bratislava.

Among the established names are some newcomers.


Píšem or pišám?

"Do ľava," (to the left) I yelled, "Nie, do prava" (no, to the right), I gasped. "Dolšie," I screamed. "Nie, nie, horšie..." My Slovak girlfriend collapsed in laughter. Was it something I said?


Matthew J. Reynolds
SkryťClose ad