Hackers order to prepare a Supermarket

Self-checkout systems supermarkets in the United Kingdom is currently the target of high-tech criminals using stolen credit cards.

BBC investigation revealed a plan hatching eggs online loot bank accounts in the United States – through acquisition systems.

Counterfeit credit cards are loaded with detailed information on the accounts were used to collect money or buy goods of high quality.

Supermarkets said that the Government, there is little chance of fraudsters made significant strides in their plan.

With the help of computer security experts, the BBC discussion site maps in high-tech thieves were discussing how best to deprive money from U.S. accounts.

The thief, have a right to comprehensive information on the U.S. – credit and debit cards for them to take a gang of American telephone lines between banks and ATMs.

“Cash”

La Banda plans to copy the map data in the magnetic strip cards and do not use it in shops in the United Kingdom. In the discussion on the map of the site coordination prevent fraud say they are looking for places to “collect”, that is deny funds to bank accounts with forged cards.

The Forum is to provide information on Tesco and Asda stores in which you can use self-service systems, mules can visit with the fake cards to get cash.

Con artists are seeking a self-service systems, to avoid contact with the ground staff who can save the wrong cards.

Within one month from mid-August, the leader said that the details of maps is to cope 2300th

The Forum said: “His (so) shopping guys help me, and I care about you.”

Information from the BBC conducted on cheques and plastic crimes so that he could investigate fraud in the development stage.

Andrew Moloney, security evangelist at RSA, said Banda “classic” card details on the cloning of a magnetic stripe.

He said that this is an example of long-term trend in fraud.

“We have seen changes in the map as far as fraud on the map-not-present fraud abroad,” he said.

“Internet is a global market,” he said. “This is not difficult to implement in order cards from one country to use it in another. This is a simple and routine procedure for those children in those days.”

Jacques Erasmus, security company Prevx, agree that the cash abroad, well-established method. “They are basically not in one country,” he said, “simply because law enforcement work that much harder.”

He said that many criminal groups even offer their services through rogue websites.

“They are doing this for you in India and China,” he said.

Radical measures

Armed with fake cards and a list of stores and supermarkets that could be affected by fraudsters may 5-8000 pounds a day, after g-Erasmus.

Funds are among mules, in fact, operations, organization of mules and high-tech thieves stole the original card numbers.

Representatives of both Tesco and Asda argue that the payment system automatically contacts with banks, if the card is swiped instead of chip and pin. Banks are required to allow the adoption of a signature.

“If the card has not been reported cloned, this can happen,” said Representative Tesco. However, he noted that the signing of the deal and swipe a small proportion of supermarkets in the trade.

“We hope that this will bring greater pressure on countries to introduce chip and pin,” said Jemma Smith of the United Kingdom payments APACS organization. “Until that happens, we can still have a card fraud in the U.S. ‘s happening in our stores and our ATMs and card payments in our fraud occurs in the U.S..”

Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7584258.stm