Financial phishing

Using the financial phishing method, social engineers have been targeting banks or their customers. Today, emerging vehicles, such as online banking, have been opening new backdoors for cybercriminals. According to the FBI, the latest trend used by social engineers has been to gain employee login credentials by using spam and phishing emails, keystroke loggers, and remote access trojans. These attack techniques were seen in September 2012, when Bank of America and Wells Fargo were among those struck.

Banks likely to remain top cybercrime targets, by Executive Report: Financial Services at https://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b_Financial_Attacks_Exec_Report.pdf.

Cybercriminals today mostly target ...

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