EAST EGAF holds 25th Meeting

The 25th Meeting of the EAST Expert Group on All Terminal Fraud (EGAF) took place on Wednesday 19th January 2022.  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.

A presentation on ‘Jackpotting with Malware’ was made by Diebold Nixdorf.

Experts from the following organisations also contributed to the meeting:  Bits A/S, BKA, BVK, Cardtronics, Damage Control, Dutch Payments Association, Europol, Gendarmerie Nationale (IRCGN), GMV, Group-IB, INTERPOL, KAL, LINK Scheme, Mastercard, MCMA, NatWest Group, NCR, PSA, Swedish National Anti-Fraud Centre, TietoEVRY, TMD Security, and TrendMicro.

EAST EGAF generates EAST Fraud Alerts for all EAST Members (National, Global and Associate). In total 264 Fraud Alerts have been issued as can be seen in the table below.