Reuters reports: Dutch bank DSB dismissed calls from a mortgage foundation on Thursday for customers to withdraw their money and denied there was a run on the bank. “There are no mass numbers of people taking away their money,” DSB spokesman Klaas Wilting said following remarks by Pieter Lakeman, chairman of the Stichting Hypotheekleed, in…
Category: Financial Sector
URLZone touted as most sophisticated banking trojan yet
Angela Moscaritolo reports: A new banking trojan called URLZone enabled cybercriminals to steal roughly $439,000 from German bank accounts during a recent 22-day crime spree, according to researchers at web security firm Finjan. “So far, this is the most sophisticated bank trojan that we have seen,” Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan, told SCMagazineUS.com on Wednesday….
Man on trial over £600k NatWest phishing scam
John Leyden reports: Fraudsters used a sophisticated Trojan to steal online bank login credentials from the compromised PCs of their victims, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard on Tuesday. The malware redirected surfers to a counterfeit NatWest bank website that attempted to trick prospective marks into handing over telephone numbers, passwords, and bank card PINs under…
Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
Brian Krebs reports: Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm’s customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information. […] Unlike typical so-called “phishing” scams — which are sent indiscriminately to large numbers of people in the hopes that…
Two men indicted for ID theft and wire fraud
A federal grand jury had indicated a Georgia man and a Maryland man on charges they possessed 15 or more counterfeited credit cards and equipment for making fraudulent credit or bank-debit cards, United States Attorney Joyce White Vance announced. Sinzinkayo Haji Sinzinkayo, 38, of Jonesboro, Ga., and Damilola Odegbile, also known as “Tony Allen,” 22,…
Judge orders Google to deactivate user’s Gmail account, but wait, there’s more…
Wendy Davis reports that in the Rocky Mountain Bank case previously covered here: In a highly unusual move, a federal judge has ordered Google to deactivate the email account of a user who was mistakenly sent confidential financial information by a bank. The order, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in the…