Phishers Use Private Banking Messages to Lure Victims

itman · Sep 28, 2017

My question is how did the attackers know who the private banking clients were?

Security experts are warning of a new phishing campaign designed to trick private banking clients into downloading covert malware onto their machines.

The spoof emails employ classic phishing techniques to socially engineer their targets, including the use of legitimate-looking banking domains and secure messages of the sort often received by private banking customers.

“This is appealing to criminals because the targets are of high value and already trust intimate communications from their banks,” explained Barracuda Networks. “Criminals also like that in order for targets to act on these messages, they need to be connected to the internet because the viewing happens in a web portal, which means that they are now vulnerable to downloading malicious content.”

The security vendor claimed to have seen many variations on the same theme over the past month, targeting multiple lenders including Bank of America and TD Commercial Banking.
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https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/phishers-private-banking-messages/

itman · Sep 28, 2017

Well, I found my answer as I suspected:

Report: Bank Email Fraud Increases since Equifax Breach

Cyberthieves are impersonating banks to send bogus "secure" bank email messages.

A spate of bogus "secure message" emails from financial institutions are making the rounds, following the high-profile Equifax breach, according to a report released today by Barracuda.

Over the past month, variants of the "secure message" email attacks have included malicious Word document attachments that rewrite directory files in users' computers once opened, according to Barracuda's Threat Spotlight report.
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https://www.darkreading.com/attacks...ncreases-since-equifax-breach/d/d-id/1330007?

RockLobster · Sep 29, 2017

I imagine it won't be long before fake emails from Equifax start phishing.

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