It was fast and furious, and if not for the surveillance cameras that captured the heist in action, two banks in Russia would never have known what occurred last year when eight of their ATMs were drained of cash—nearly a million dollars worth of rubles in a single night.When one of the banks contacted the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab to investigate, the only evidence was CCTV recordings showing a lone culprit walking up to the ATMs and, without even touching the machines, grabbing thick stacks of bills—about $100,000 worth of cash from each machine, dispensed 40 bills at a time—as they magically spit out. It took less than 20 minutes to clean one machine dry before the money mule moved on to other ATMs in the city and replayed the scene.The method behind the feat was a complete mystery. The bank could find no malware on its ATMs or backend network, and no sign of an intrusion either. But the attackers did inadvertently leave one clue behind—two log files that recorded everything that occurred on the machines before the money disappeared. The logs included one telling line of English text ("Take the money bitch") which turned out to be their undoing.Continue reading on Motherboard.