The security guard, Santosh, is also part of the Delhi police’s community policing initiative called Prahari.The police said the accused used to cancel the transaction as soon as the machine was about to dispense the cash and would insert a "key" in the ATM shutter to take out the money.

A security guard, posted at an Socks Machine Suppliers ATM in southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji, caught a person who allegedly used to tamper with the cash vending machines and con banks.Tech student, was found carrying three ATM cards, one small key and Rs 30,000 cash.Thirty more ATM cards of different banks in the name of different persons along with 40 signed cheques have been seized from the accuseds rented flat in Greater Noida, the DCP said, adding some notes and books about ATM hacking were also seized..The accused has been handed over to the police. The accused, Mukul Rajput (20), a B. He would later contact the bank concerned claiming that despite cancelling the transaction, money has been withdrawn from his account and would request reimbursement, another police officer said.

Security experts are now cautiously linking the Lazarus Group to this latest attack after the discovery by Mr Mehta.North Korea has denied being behind the Sony and banking attacks.A researcher from South Korea’s Hauri Labs said on Tuesday that their own findings matched those of Kaspersky Lab.Researchers have said that some of the code used in Friday’s ransomware, known as WannaCry software, was nearly identical to the code used by the Lazarus Group, a group of North Korean hackers who used a similar version for the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014 and last year’s hack of Bangladesh Central Bank. However, it is worth further investigation," Mr Woodward said.Security expert Professor Alan Woodward said that time stamps within the original WannaCry code were set to China’s time zone and the text demanding the ransom used what read like machine-translated English, but also contained a Chinese segment reportedly written by a native speaker."

It is similar to North Korea’s backdoor malicious codes," Simon Choi, a senior researcher with Hauri who has done extensive research into North Korea’s hacking capabilities and advises South Korean police and National Intelligence Service."Neel Mehta’s discovery is the most significant clue to date regarding the origins of WannaCry," said Russian security firm Kaspersky, but noted a lot more information was needed on earlier versions of WannaCry before a conclusion could be reached..The code, published on Twitter, is exclusive to North Korean hackers, researchers Zhuji Guanghui Machinery Suppliers said. North Korean officials were not available for comment and its media has been quiet about the matter.London: An Indian-origin security researcher with Google has found evidence suggesting that North Korean hackers may have carried out the "unprecedented" ransomware cyberattack that hit over 150 countries, including India.Mr Mehta has found similarities between the code within WannaCry and other tools believed to have been created by the Lazarus Group in the past, BBC reported.Neel Mehta has published a code which a Russian security firm has termed as the "most significant clue to date", BBC reported on Tuesday."As you can see, it is pretty thin and all circumstantial.