A Raspberry Pi board can be used for many things like building night vision goggles, but a group of criminals from Lubbock, Texas used it to steal money from ATMs. Unlike a traditional debit card skimming operation, these three plugged a Raspberry Pi-powered device into the ATM to turn off its security system before gaining access to the cash drawer.
Witnesses say the group stole at least $5,700 USD from ATM by basically loading the Raspberry Pi with custom software and locating the USB ports on specific machines that can normally only be accessed by servicemen. This piece of software tricks the ATM into thinking that the Raspberry Pi is a keyboard, thus allowing stored commands to run on the machine, whether it be dispensing banknotes or unlocking the cash drawer.
- Broadcom BCM2711, quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1. 5GHz---4GB LPDDR4-2400 SDRAM
- 2. 4 GHz and 5. 0 GHz IEEE 802. 11B/g/n/ac Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 5. 0, double-true Gigabit Ethernet
- 2 × USB 3. 0 ports, 2 x USB 2. 0 Ports---2 × micro HDMI ports supporting up to 4Kp60 video resolution
