[pchelpers] News:Hackers Tap Banks' Web Sites In Unique Phishing Attack

March 29, 2006
By  Antone Gonsalves
In an unusual form of  phishing,  hackers cracked the computers hosting 
the Web sites of three Florida banks, redirecting banking customers to a 
bogus homepage in order to steal account information and other personal 
data.

ElectroNet Intermedia Consulting, the Tallahassee, Fla., service 
provider that hosts the sites of Capital City Bank, Wakulla Bank and 
Premier Bank, told the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper that the scam was 
spotted within an hour after it started March 21, and the sites were 
shutdown for a short period.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating the case, 
and no arrests had been made. Neither the FDLE nor ElectroNet were 
immediately available for comment.

The incident marked a new tactic in phishing, a form of deception in 
which crooks use spam to lure people to bogus banking sites to enter 
passwords and other personal information, said John Quarterman, chief 
executive of Austin, Texas-based, InternetPerils Inc., which tracks 
Internet scams.

The hackers entered two servers running Microsoft Internet Information 
Services and planted the script needed to redirect people from the 
banks' legitimate sites to a bogus one, Quarterman said in his blog.

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