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08/01/2016
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The so-called internet banking - database access through smartphones or the web in PC applications - has grown increasingly in Brazil. In 2014, 4.7 billion of banking transactions were made online in the country, that number jumped to 11.2 billion in 2015, according to the research laboratory in Kaspersky Security.
Thus, it is clear that the action of criminals also directed to where there is demand. One of the strategies used to steal data Hot accesses the bank by cell phone is called SMiShing (phishing sent by SMS). They are false text messages that induce the victim to click on a link to a malicious page that goes through your bank.
The larceny happens as follows: the user receives an SMS message purporting to be from your bank branch. Normally, the text says that it needs to access the link attached to update your registration, otherwise will have their account blocked. How many banks actually use SMS to communicate with customers, the victim ends up being more easily deceived.
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By following the link for the PC, the fake website says registration update service is liberadi only mobile - the blow is preferably applied by the smartphone. Once the user opens the same page for the mobile browser (not the app from your bank), he sees a page with the colors and logos that mimic their own.
The page usually come with form fields to be filled with sensitive data such as number of agency, account, password, phone number and other information. Kaspersky says that the SMS messages are triggered by mass messaging agency, hired and paid by criminals using cloned credit cards.
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Kaspersky has a list of domains that are normalmenete used by criminals in these scams, and you can see by clicking here. The recommendation is to always be careful with suspicious links sent by SMS to open browser pages, and not the application from your bank, for example.
Source: Digital Look
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