Cyber hackers target ATMs, Europe and Malaysia hit

Although cyber criminals have been attacking cash machines for at least five years, the early campaigns mostly involved small numbers of ATMs.

CYBER criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year, using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm Group IB.

Diebold Nixdorf and NCR Corp, the world's two largest ATM makers, said they were aware of the attacks and have been working with customers to mitigate the threat. The newly disclosed heists across Europe follow the hacking of ATMs in Taiwan and Thailand that were widely reported over the summer.