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The so-called congestion attack that has taken place in recent days has been well tolerated by Hungarian banks, Gergely Gábler, director of IT modeling and supervision at the Hungarian National Bank (MNB), told Inforadio. The specialist also drew attention to a new type of fraud.
In terms of attacks, there are basically two areas: customer-directed attacks and cyberattacks against banks, which seek to make the systems of financial institutions impossible by demanding some kind of “ransom,” the director of modeling and supervision of Central bank IT.
An example of the latter was the recent overload attack, which was well handled by Hungarian banks, so there was no major problem. The expert also spoke about the fact that in the case of customer experiments, in addition to phishing, other methods have appeared on the market, ranging from the simplest form of online credit card abuse, than the new financial double and the strict customer authentication regulations will be tackled effectively from January 1. In addition, the so-called account switch fraud prevails, when a criminal group conducts a thorough investigation of the customer and then, when addressing the partner, tries to divert the transaction from the usual account.
There has also been an entirely new type of fraud that requires creative and thorough preparation, such as SIM card replacement. In this case, the attacker indicates to the mobile service provider that the customer’s SIM card to be damaged is damaged, so he requests a new one. After the change, the fraudster will have access to the data with the new card, allowing him to take control of the internet banking interfaces, Gergely Gábler added. These are usually big scams, with wealthy customers targeting scammers.
Gergely Gábler advised that everyone be very prudent; and do not enter your banking login information in any way, in any interface, only what you enter in the browser yourself, so no one should click on any link in an email. Furthermore, nEm should not share personal information with others, nor should a screenshot be recorded in the banking web interface.
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