2005/10/11
Phishing target one-time passwords - in Swedish
Just when I thought the nordic countries would be the last to be phished, the phishers strike. Out-law pointed out an this F-Secure post (go to the bottom of the page):
Last night an unknown party launched a large-scale attack against Nordea Sweden. Nordea is the largest bank in Nordic countries. It also operates one of the largest internet banks in the world, with over 4 million internet customers in eight countries.It doesn't sound like it was an automated MITM attack - the bank uses pre-printed scratch sheets - but that will be sure to follow. Mutual authentication will be paramount for online banking in the very near future.
Basically this was a normal phishing scam: somebody spammed a large amount of spoofed emails with links pointing to a fake bank. What made it different was two things:
1. The phishing emails were in Swedish
2. Nordea operates a one-time password system
- Category(s)
- Phishing and Fraud
- Two Factor Authentication
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- http://www.wikidsystems.com/WiKIDBlog/66/tbping
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