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Hackers are targeting ATMs in India with new malware that steal data

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A banking malware named  ATMDTrack   has been active in India since late last summer,  in a  kaspersky report . Allegedly State sponsored Hackers from North Korean government have developed a new strain of malware that has been used to record and steal data from cards inserted into ATM machines in India. Further analysis of the malware by the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm found the samples to be part of a bigger remote access trojan (RAT) called DTrack. Calling it a spy tool to attack financial institutions and research centers in India, the experts said the malware strains shared “similarities with the DarkSeoul campaign, dating back to 2013 and attributed to the Lazarus group.” The DTrack RAT was detected as recently as this month, the researchers noted. Collecting key logs and browser histories The threat actors behind DTrack obfuscated their malicious code in an innocuous executable file that was protected behind encryption barriers in a dropper used to install the malware. Aside