The most used technique by cyber-thieves to steal money from bank accounts is phishing, trying to get your password for the bank and transferring funds from there to their own account. But public is getting more aware of this type of attack, so it’s getting less profitable.
Criminals are trying to find other ways to get your money and, in a “clever” movement, they are not asking your password anymore, but wait until you login into your bank account and then use your credentials to get the money transfered.
If we make a simile with the real world, until now the thieves were spying us when we were entering our PIN into the ATM and, when we left they used this PIN to get money. Now, they wait besides the ATM for us to come and try to get money and when we are doing this they transfer the funds to their account without the need of the PIN.
As always, we should have a good antivirus, a good antispyware and never trust links embedded in an email.
From | Truston Identity Theft Blog.
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