On Monday, IBM X-Force reported that Polish banks have been attacked by malicious software – GozNym. According to this information is the most comprehensive of this type of attack in Poland – was attacked 17 commercial banks and 230 cooperative banks.
Polish Bank Association: no attack on Polish banks
Przemyslaw Barbrich with the Polish Banks Association reassures: The Electronic Banking Polish Bank Association communicates that there is no attack on the Polish banks, and a warning is rather action commercial sales of the company, informing that the product can cope with this issue.
Money bank customers are safe
Barbich adds, however, that clients’ money and the system is secure, though the hackers even at this point may attempt to attack the banking system or client accounts, but nothing more alarming than usual does not happen, as confirmed by today’s announcement the Financial Supervision Commission.
Appeal to the banks with a more prudent conduct information campaigns
Polish Bank Association also calls for operating on the market for commercial companies to carefully conducted similar actions of information and marketing, as it move in such situations in the area of public confidence.
He says Barbrich, banks have high public confidence and similar actions can be challenged, which is unnecessary and dangerous, and in situations of actual risks customers may react inappropriately to the actual threat.
– Specialists banks keep constant protection systems of these organizations, fending off dozens, if not hundreds, of different types of attacks a day – said Przemyslaw Barbich, Director of the Public Relations Association of Polish Banks.
Basic Safety
He also recalled the basic principles of safe use of the Internet banking systems.
– No bank never sends to its customers questions about passwords or other sensitive data, or requests to update them. Let us also remember that the computer or mobile phone connected to the Internet must have an antivirus program installed and it must be constantly updated – said the representative of the Polish Bank Association.
Niebezpiecznik.pl questions about the cyber attack
Occupying a network security portal Niebezpiecznik.pl questions in the meantime about the cyber attack on the Polish banks.
Niebezpiecznik.pl stresses that the information about the attack received from the PR agency that supports IBM’s company. However, the questions concern specific answers did not grant. Portal has determined that for the analysis of malware is responsible Israeli team. Portal reserves, there is no information on the number of actual victims of the attack. For this, banks do not publish warnings to their clients.
So Niebezpiecznik.pl proposes to information about attacks on banks approached critically.
Police: we have no reports of attacks on Polish banks
Also, the police will ensure that this year had no reports from banks with massive attacks on their Internet systems; but calls to people using electronic banking were cautious and very carefully checked, to whom and why will reveal their data.
– If banks fall victim to criminals, the letter such signals arrive. We do not have information about any massive attacks on banks in Poland – said Iwona pony with the press team of the Police Headquarters.
Kuc noted that banks do not inform the police about this type of attack. – For example, last year we had such a notification from the two institutions. The perpetrator was arrested – she added.
She admitted at the same time that almost every day police officers are signs of attempts to steal your identity on the Internet – eg. For all kinds of e-mails through which criminals seek to gain access to someone’s account.
– These actions are based on the use of malware. As for the so-called. worms, Trojan horses, Trojans, or different kinds of viruses that are in different situations can download from infected websites. What should we do to avoid such dangers? First of all, remember that the rules for the use of electronic banking defined in the agreement that we sign with the bank. The Bank does not send us an email with the form in which you have to give details, nor will it require transmission scans for example. ID card – underlined the pony.
Caution and common sense
Police officers point out that the most effective protection against such threats is caution and common sense. – Updating the system, antivirus software, change the password, take care of it that have been advanced, they contain uppercase and lowercase letters. Do not send any personal information by e-mail; in any case does not fulfill its detailed data forms in an email message – added pony.
Another important thing – pointed out – is that signing up to the site of the bank, do not use unsecured networks. – Let’s see it, if the site of the bank, which we enter, it certainly page of our bank and is encrypted – she added.
As pointed out, the ingenuity of criminals is high. Online scammers do not just send out e-mails with bogus addresses banking sites, but also, for example, have a well-paid job. – Increasingly, all kinds of companies – via the internet – represent preferred jobs. From potential applicants require, however, send your CV or fill in a very detailed form. In this way, they receive the data, which should not share them – pointed pony.
James Bojanowski, Partner risk management department of Deloitte and Mirosław Maj, president of the Foundation Safe Cyberspace:
Source: Newseria
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