*Cosmos 🏦Bank Malware 💥Attack🔊: ATMs Used in 🇮🇳India Identified🔊: 🏙Pune 🕵SIT*

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Pune city police, which is probing the malware attack on Cosmos Bank in which Rs 94 crore was siphoned off, has said that they have got the locations of the Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in India, including those in Maharashtra, from which the money was withdrawn during the cyber attack. Officials said that they were now waiting for the data on transactions in ATMs located outside India.

In arguably the first of its kind coordinated digital attack on an Indian bank, large sums of money was fraudulently withdrawn using cloned debit cards of the Pune-headquartered cooperative bank through thousands of ATM transactions from India and 28 other countries in a period of seven hours on August 11.

The transactions in India were done from Mumbai, Kolhapur, Pune, some other places in Maharashtra and also in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Cosmos Bank officials said the illegal withdrawals were enabled by the malware attack which authenticated debit card transactions bypassing the bank’s computerised core banking system.