Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

Good ol' Brian Krebs. In New York City, NCR and an unnamed financial institution have uncovered the latest generation in card skimmers. A card skimmer is a custom-made device that credit card thieves insert into AMERICAN ATMs (this is almost 100% an American problem because we won't get rid of the stupid magnetic strip and go to entirely chip-based cards) that has a strip reader and is inserted into the card reading slot of the ATM, so that when you insert your card into the machine, it captures the data on your bank card. A very cleverly-disguised card then captures your PIN that you almost never cover when you enter it. It's all stored in memory, then the thieves come by later with a Bluetooth transceiver, beam a code to the device, and it spews all the captured data back to them and clears itself.

These have been around for years and are most commonly found at stand-alone ATMs and at gas pumps. So what is new about this?

IT IS 0.68 MILLIMETERS THICK!

That is some pretty impressive engineering and manufacturing to make a skimmer that thin! To give you a comparison, your bank card is approximately 0.54mm thick.

NCR has some countermeasures to improve detection of these skimmers, but the best thing as always is to simply cover your hand when entering your PIN.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/09/say-hello-to-crazy-thin-deep-insert-atm-skimmers/