EAST EGAF holds 24th Meeting

The 24th Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EGAF) took place on Wednesday 15th September 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 23 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 the BKA, INTERPOL, and Diebold Nixdorf.

Experts from the following organisations also contributed to the meeting:  AXEPTA-BNP Paribas, Cardtronics, Damage Control, Dutch Payments Association, Europol, Federal Office of Police (FedPol), Fiducia & GAD, GMV, Mastercard, NatWest Group, NCR, PSA, KAL, Santander Bank, TMD Security, and TrendMicro.

EAST EGAF generates EAST Fraud Alerts for all EAST Members (National, Global and Associate). In total 262 Fraud Alerts have been issued as can be seen in the table below.