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Fraudulent scheme targeting Santander

Răzvan LIVINTZ

April 13, 2010

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Fraudulent scheme targeting Santander

A new significant wave of e-mail spam purporting to verify and reinforce the “account against ID Theft” leads the credulous or inadvertent users to a collection of Web pages meant to steal and empty their bank accounts.

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The on-line forms that claim to pertain to the financial institution`s portal spoof several visual identification elements, such as the logo and general layout. Additionally, the pages are not registered onto a .co.uk domain (but .com) and are totally lacking any specific security elements, such as the locked padlock.

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The phishers steal the sensitive data that the user is required to confirm via two PHP scripts: mainfile.dists.php ” used to pilfer the 8 digit customer ID, and formmailerv2.php ” which purloins the customer PIN, place of birth, mother’s maiden name, password and transfer password, telephone banking PIN, card number and CVC.

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As always, be suspicious of e-mails alleging to be from your bank ” financial institutions never contact their customers via e-mail to verify sensitive information ” and double-check the security elements of the login page of your e-banking portal. Last but not least, keep your antiphishing on and up-to-date.

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The information in this article is available courtesy of Daniel Dichiu, BitDefender Online Threats Researcher.

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Răzvan LIVINTZ

I rediscovered "all that technical jazz" with the E-Threat Analysis Team at Bitdefender, the creator of one of the industry's most effective lines of internationally certified security software.

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