EAST EGAF holds 23rd Meeting

The 23rd Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EGAF) took place on Wednesday 12th May 2021.  Due to the Covid-19 situation, it was conducted as a virtual meeting and was chaired by Otto de Jong of ING Bank.

The meeting was attended by 28 key representatives from Terminal Deployers, Terminal Vendors, Networks, Card Schemes, Security Equipment and Software Vendors, Law Enforcement and Forensic Analysts.

EAST EGAF, which meets three times a year in advance of each of the meetings of EAST National and Global Members, enables in-depth and technical discussion to take place on Logical and Malware attacks, Card Data Compromise and other issues relating to terminal fraud.

Presentations were made by Europol, INTERPOL, Swedish Police, Damage Control Mexico, and Diebold Nixdorf.

Experts from the following organisations also contributed to the meeting:  Bits A/S, BVK, Cennox, GMV, Mastercard, NatWest Group, NCR, PSA, KAL, Santander Bank, TietoEVRY, TMD Security, and TrendMicro.

The meeting approved a list of recommended Countermeasures against ATM Malware and Black Box attacks, which will be shown, as applicable, in future EAST Fraud Alerts.

EAST EGAF generates EAST Fraud Alerts for all EAST Members (National, Global and Associate). In total 260 EAST Fraud Alerts have been issued as can be seen in the table below.