



A gang of Romanian criminals stole about £1.6m in UK.The group used special type of malwares to compromise more than 50 ATMs in the cities of Blackpool, Brighton, Doncaster, Liverpool, London, Portsmouth and Sheffield.





According to the police,these criminals stolen £1.6m in series of jack-potting attacks.This trick was introduced by an infamous hacker Barnaby Jack in 2010 and it consists in a method to force ATMs to spit out cash.The British police believe that the group is composed of Romanian and Moldovan.





The gang infected the ATM using a malware that was transferred with a removable media.





Nigel Kirby (Deputy director for the NCA’s economic crime command) said:





This operation represents a significant disruption against a sophisticated criminal enterprise who used specialist malware to target cash points and steal large quantities of cash.





The malware is composed with advanced malicious coding , including the capability to deleted itself after the money thefts is completed,this will make the investigation pretty hard.





These type of malwares is typically called as Tyupkin, which is one of the popular codes used by criminals and hackers to hack ATMs and force them to release money.