When banks decide to introduce new security measure in ATMs in the form of biometric solutions, cybercriminals can see new opportunities in stealing money from our accounts. 

In the article on stealing money from bank accounts we mentioned skimmers which can be used to steal  information from the payment card, let alone Internet cams or covers for the keyboard in order to acquire the PIN number. 

The bank industry faces up to thieves and implements new authentication methods based on a biometric technology. For example the Fujitsu company introduced technology in their smartphone enabling to process the payment with the scan of the iris. However, in Great Britain, one of the banks introduced the technology of the voice recognition of customers using the banking service with the help of smartphone. Biometry was also used in Poland, Planets Cash network equipped ATMs with the reader of the fingers' blood vessels which enables the withdrawal of money without using the card or PIN code.

However, research conducted by Kaspersky Lab confirmed that on the market we could find skimmers being able to steal fingerprints.

In our opinion the biometric measurement should constitute additional rather than only authenticating protecting.