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ATM hackers who long relied on tactics of stealing payment card numbers and online banking credentials to steal millions are now targeting the bank itself to steal cash directly from the machines. Earlier this year, a gang of cyber criminals infected several ATMs with malware in Taiwan and Thailandthat caused the machines to spit out millions in cash, and the gang members then stood in front of the infected ATMs at the appointed hour and collected the money. Now, the FBI has warned U.S. banks of the potential for similar ATM jackpotting attacks, saying that the agency is "monitoring emerging reports indicating that well-resourced and organized malicious cyber actors have intentions to target the U.S. financial sector." ATM jackpotting is a technique used to force automated teller machines to spit out cash. According to Russian cyber security firm Group-IB, cyber crooks have remotely infected ATMs with malware in more than dozen countries across Europe this year, w...

New forensic tool will recover data from smartphone RAM, encrypted or not. Encryption or not, your smartphone data will now be easily recovered with this forensic tool. If you remember the hullabaloo created over Apple being asked by FBI to unlock a locked iPhone 5c belonging to a terrorist. The news generated such hype and opinions that it was dominating world tech news for almost a week before FBI quietly contracted an Israel-based firm to unlock the terrorist’s iPhone. Now FBI or for that matter, any law enforcement agency does not have to go anywhere to recover data from locked or encrypted smartphones as researchers have developed a new forensic tool which recovers data from smartphone RAM called Retroscope. The researchers from Purdue University have developed a new tool to recover information stored in smartphone’s volatile memory could give investigators important clues to solve criminal cases. Instead of trying to unlock the encrypted smartphone’s hardrive, whic...