IBM: over 200 Polish banks attacked by malicious … – Banker

              IBM X-Force reported that Polish banks have been attacked by malicious software – GozNym. It is the most comprehensive of this type of attack in Poland – was attacked 17 commercial banks and – 230 cooperative banks.

 
 

“The attack, which is currently observed in Poland with the use of malware called GozNym, is in some respects a special and means that Poland joined not really elite club of countries that are most frequently attacked by cyber criminals,” – he said in an interview with PAP Marcin Spychała IBM X-force.

 

The expert explains that GozNym has diagrams attack on the 17 commercial banks and 200 cooperative banks.

 

Malware is installed on the victim’s computer is not permitted in any client to connect to the page of electronic banking. In return, he redirects the victim to a fake, but it looks exactly like the real bank’s website, where the victim enters their login information and betray them the same criminals.

 

“In this case, the client does not protect even verify the correctness of safety certificate SSL. GozNym redirect for connection to a fake site only after verification of the certificate by the official website of the bank, and communication konytunowana is only on the line, the customer – substituted site – explains PAP technologies Spychała.

 

The expert explains that the theft of money can save users aware of the use of methods of dual authorization of transactions – SMS messages sent by the bank, tokens, one-time codes.

 

Spychała warns against further such attacks in the future. “Expect some successive waves of attack, because the group can rent existing infrastructures to other cybercriminals. Every teenager will be able with the help of the currency bitcoin rent infrastructure to attack the Polish banks” – warns expert IBM. (PAP)

 

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