Friday, February 3, 2017

Hackers attacked Polish banks via the website KNF – Polska The Times

As it turned out on Friday afternoon, the case was really serious because the website KNF is likely to have been used as an “entrance gateway” for operating in Poland banks. With the help of it the hackers most likely installed in the information system of malware. And it is so much advanced that is not captured in its collateral in the Bank – program on the highest technological level.

This situation seems to confirm that the attack was made not by Amateurs, but an organized group of hackers largely technologically – maybe even the intelligence of a foreign state.

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on Friday afternoon, first Hleb Barszczewski, a representative of the FSC has officially confirmed that the Office was established the attempt of external interference in the information system that supports the KNF website and later the website was temporarily disabled from operation. Then it turned out that the situation is so serious that it involved all the major service responsible for cyber security in Poland, but all banks – it professionals responsible for the security of Internet banking.

Who stole confidential data?

This time, however, it’s not about the money. The result of this action, none of the banks are not odszło to electronic theft. The object of the attack was the servers, which store so-called sensitive customer data. First discovered spyware program, it of the State Bank PKO.
the Attempt to log on to the website of the Committee for Financial Supervision ends in a fiasco; the display will show the message “Server Error in ‘/’ Application”. So for many hours, and the only one available without obstacles podstroną is providing Magazine of the Commission for Financial Supervision.
According to the first official explanation, no access, it was the effect service work. Less official cause of problems from the beginning was attack by hackers. It was assumed that they are taking revenge, therefore, on the Commission for the re warning customers of the banks from breaking, which began last spring and continues until today. No, at the moment almost an y recognized Bank in Poland, which customers will not lose as a result of hacker attacks (especially the so-called phishing, redirection operations on your replaced page hacked) significant amounts of money.

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Subsequent findings confirm that the effect of the former is carefully planned and carried out. Even, perhaps, were for a long time, and only on Thursday has reached its finale.
According to experts, the basic “Trusted Third Party” is the most serious hacker attack on Poland banking system in history. Currently, all banks check your it system and in accordance soothe that clients ‘ money are in there. Still waiting on the results of the investigation conducted by the Internal Security Agency.

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