Comments on: Pro ATM Hacker ‘Chao’ Gives Out ATM Hacking Tips

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:24:17 +0000

Avoid ATM’s with video cameras… Although maybe sunglasses and a hood at night time would foil them. Banks and the Secret Service use all that info when they look for their guy.

Some guys with very complicated heist manuvers have been caught even still.

By: navin

navin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:50:19 +0000

@ terrery
Can wht U’re saying be done for a single transaction?? i mean u ever heard of something like this done?? Even as a PoC?? links please…anyone

By: Goodpeople

Goodpeople — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:24:38 +0000

Am I glad that I live in a small town.. :-)

By: terrery

terrery — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:07:35 +0000

”He was one of the most well-known ATM hackers in the world, according to Uri Rivner, head of new technologies for RSA Consumer Solutions”

maybe a hint for him, after you skim the card you are about to withdraw cash from it.
it will have a maximum amount of withdrawel, how can we get max profit of this scam? well search for a ATM that has standard passwords provided by the manufacturer, (you can find manuals from that specific ATM manufacture on the internet) use them, hack in the ATM and let the ATM think that a bill of 50 is 5.

”a max withdraw of 500”, 500:5= 100 times 50= ”5000”

5 times in each city = 25000 lets say you can accomplish this is some days.

well keep this on for a few weeks and fly to the bahama’s or something :)

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:13:17 +0000

Nice read, but nothing ground bracking

By: goblert

goblert — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:04:30 +0000

Interesting read.
This was happening in my
country for a while, there was a big thing on the news about it.

By: SpikyHead

SpikyHead — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:38:35 +0000

This had to happen (that he got caught), ATM hacking is something which is comparatively easy to figure out especially when more than one customer complains about fraudulent activity in their bank accounts and then finding the fraudsters is even easier unless he has stopped these activities.

now couple more ‘Blackhat’ tips to add (for humour purposes only):
-Do not attempt this more than 5 times in one city
-Change the city every day. This may make it harder for police ;)

Yami, you seem to be analyzing his tips very carefully.. what ar eyour plans budd?

By: Yami King

Yami King — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:06:52 +0000

@ Navin
I totally agree.

Except for the one (point 3) that says `Avoid blocks where more than 250 people per day walk through, because of the danger of detection.`
Why? Because this just really depends on the time of the day you are at the ATM; when there is no one around and you followed the basic guidelines stated above, there’s basicly nothing to worry about.
And it’s kind of in contradiction with point 7: `Places with a lot of tourist traffic are good`. Since these so-called places all contain blocks that are usually visited over 250 times a day (point 3) depending on the popularity of the region.

By: Navin

Navin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:45:07 +0000

doesn’t this all come under tht little thing we all ignore called “common sense”??

I mean, its more of observations than tips …what say??