http://www.darkreading.com/smb-security/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227900529 By Tim Wilson DarkReading Oct 21, 2010 Cybercriminals are targeting the financial accounts of small and midsize businesses (SMBs), fraudulently transferring money directly from their accounts, the FBI warned yesterday. In a fraud alert issued Wednesday, the FBI said "corporate account takeover" attacks use malware to steal passwords and other credentials from senior executives at SMBs and then use those credentials to empty the companies' coffers. "To obtain access to financial accounts, cyber criminals target employees--often senior executives or accounting, HR personnel, and business partners--and cause the targeted individual to spread [malware], which in turn steals their personal information and log-in credentials," the FBI says in its full report (PDF). "Once the account is compromised, the cyber criminal is able to electronically steal money from business accounts," the report explains. "Cyber criminals also use various attack methods to exploit check archiving and verification services that enable them to issue counterfeit checks, impersonate the customer over the phone to arrange funds transfers, mimic legitimate communication from the financial institution to verify transactions, create unauthorized wire transfers and ACH payments, or initiate other changes to the account." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Oct 21 2010 - 22:09:30 PDT
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