Thailand bank's £265,000 cash machine heist a 'carbon copy' of $2.2m Taiwan ATM attacks

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Are ATM fraudsters exploiting known flaws in cash machines to infect them with malware and drain them of money?

The Government Savings Bank of Thailand has been hit by a 12 million baht (£265,000) ATM fraud in an attack that is believed to have been carried out by the same people behind the theft of $2.2m fr...

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