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Phishers Target Barclays Clients
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2006-09-14
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Panda Software has issued an "orange alert" warning against a large scale phishing attack targeting clients of Barclays Bank's online services, with at least 61 variants of a spoof email. The company estimates that the number of emails in circulation is several million.
The emails include subject lines like:
Barclays bank official update
Barclays bank-Security update
Please Read or Verify your data with Barclays bank
The full list is available at Panda's Virus Encyclopedia
Imitating Barclays' corporate format, the messages say the bank is upgrading software and instructs recipients to follow a link to confirm banking details like account number, credit card number, or PIN.
"We believe this could be a coordinated attack, initiated in several places at the same time in order to spread rapidly and gather a considerable amount of confidential bank details in record time," said Ryan Sherstobitoff, Security Spokesperson for Panda Software.
To prevent attempts to shut down them down, the phishers have set up at least five bogus websites, all imitating Barclays, all hosted in Korea.
"This is a sophisticated attack in comparison with those that we usually see," said Sherstobitoff. "The use of several domains to host spoofed web pages makes it more difficult to disable them. The emails are also far more authentic looking than the usual, often error strewn, messages."
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