The practice lies in the fact that a random person is sent to e-mail correspondence in which the recipient under any pretext are encouraged to log on to a specific bank by the given e-mail link . – This, however, does not direct them to the service of the bank, but on page confusingly similar to it, which is under the control of cybercriminals. If the client does not keep due care and there enters its l ogin and password to the account, control over it may take criminal groups – says Piotr Kupczyk Kaspersky Lab anti-virus software manufacturer.
This kind of attack is becoming more and witness the statistics. Data from Kaspersky Lab shows that only in July this year, the number phishing attacks for customers of banks, payment systems and online stores increased by 8 percent. compared with June. As a result, 42 percent longer. all phishing emails. In 2013. Customers of financial institutions were directed more than 31 percent. phishing emails .
Why is this happening? – More and more customers use the online accounts , doing shopping online or reserve plane tickets using remote channels. With the increasing network traffic and activity is growing so criminals – says Kamil Sadkowski, an analyst hazards in the laboratory Eset. Today, more than 22 million Poles have an account with access to the internet, and almost 13 million actively use electronic banking. Igor Tatzky, chief information security office PKO BP, adds that the increase in phishing spam in our market is a reflection of the changes taking place around the world. – Criminals are now much more likely to use this mechanism than the previously used attack with malware – he says.
But the increase of phishing attacks on customers of Polish banks influence are also internal factors, such as activation of the Polish criminal groups. – Until recently, most phishing was written in broken Polish, suggesting that it attacks prepared by the foreigners. Now more and more common phishing correct language. It is a sign that the Polish hackers have noticed that our market is money, and begin to reach for them – says Cezary Piekarski, senior manager in the risk management department of Deloitte. Moreover, in his opinion in the network appeared in Polish language versions of finished tools to facilitate phishing attacks. – This may indicate that our market matures and becomes more and more attractive to cybercriminals from abroad – says Cezary Piekarski.
Experts stress that the growth of the phenomenon of phishing, the financial impact may also have the appearance of a new category of web-users. – are people who are not currently using the Internet, and the adventure began recently with the network through mobile devices. So they did not have time to meet applied by cybercriminals methods and learn how to defend against them. Now they are becoming easy targets – says Piotr Kupczyk.
Experts point out that, while pretending to systematically reduce the number of unsolicited communications in the network, so that which remains, becomes more dangerous. An example might be the last attack, where the mass-mailing e-mails informed of arrears in payment of mBank. If the message went to the customer mBank and opened a attachment in the message , run dangerous software that interfered with the account numbers of recipients defined in the service bank. As a result, the client performing the standard charges, he could supply the offenders account. As it is known informally, the attack was so effective that mBank temporarily suspended the ability to change the defined audience through the Internet service.
Another example would be the appearance of Zeus virus . With its help the criminals first acquire the login information for your account at the bank, and then send the phone number of the customer’s request to install anti-virus software smartphone via the attached link. As a result, they can take incoming SMS and confirm the password-recurring transfers performed by himself with the victim’s account.
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