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Skim Reaper to Detect Wide Range of Skimmers Stealing Payment Card Data

Researchers from the University of Florida developed Skim Reaper that detects physical properties and necessary constraints for a wide range of skimmers that steal card data. Skimmers are essentially malicious card readers that grab the data of the cards magnetic stripe attached to the real payment terminals so that they can harvest data from every person that swipes their cards. New York Police Department’s Financial Crimes Task Force collected skimmer devices around 16 months between 2016-Jul-14 to 2017-Nov-11 and sent the devices to researchers.”]

Source: https://gbhackers.com/skim-reaper-detects-skimmers/

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