Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Cybercrooks target credit union, bank employees

Local credit unions and small banks are being warned by the FBI that their employees may be the latest targets of cybercrooks.

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A new FBI fraud alert warns that these crooks are aggressively trying to steal login details of these employees with the goal of illegally wiring themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Fraudsters obtain the logins through phishing and spam e-mails before installing keystroke loggers and remote access Trojans on their computer, gaining complete access to internal networks and logins to third party systems.

Read the article to see if your CU is at risk to these types of threats.

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