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Visa is to step up the fight against crime by releasing a fraud detection tool to a variety of European banks. Indiana's attorney general is warning state residents about a phishing attack in which an email claiming to be from Chase Bank offers customers $20 to complete an online survey and provide personal information. A phishing scam where unwary users are lured into filling out a bogus survey has been traced to a hacked web server of a state-owned Chinese bank. Experts have warned of a new type of phishing that could siphon bank details from mobile phone users. Nearly 10 million Yen ($91,000) has been robbed from Japanese bank accounts due to a ‘Spyware bug’. Over 100,000 bank customers are to be notified that sensitive account information had been stolen following the arrest of members of a cyber crime syndicate.

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The Mechanics Bank, the largest independent community bank in the San Francisco Bay Area, has undertaken an infrastructure upgrade that aims to boost the security of its Citrix Presentation Server-based application environment in the face of a growing threat from viruses and hackers. Phishing is as lucrative as it is prolific. According to the latest official figures from UK payments body, APACS, phishing scams and Trojan keystroke loggers were behind UK online bank fraud totalling £12m in 2004; while BlackSpider Technologies estimates that nearly seven million phishing emails have been sent across the UK in the last month alone. Protecting data in the digital age is essential. Recent years have seen a decline in “recreational hacking” and a new wave of commercial hacking as illustrated in the example of the keystroke logger placed at the Sumitomo bank in an effort to steal £220m earlier this year and the various efforts at Denial of Service (DoS) blackmail. Estonian police have arrested a man for stealing money from scores of European bank accounts. A new trojan blending spyware and phishing techniques is threatening Spanish-speaking bank customers, a European security firm warned this week. The recent attempted robbery of £220 million from the Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in London last month has brought the problem of spyware and keyloggers into sharp relief. Bank of America (BofA) said computer tapes containing U.S. federal government customer information were lost during a shipment to a backup data center. Phishing is now an accepted fact of life for many Internet users. Most of the emails that they receive are clearly from friends or business contacts, or clearly fraudulent. But there are a few, just a few, that might just be genuine, and there will always be a small percentage of users who will follow the link sent them in the email, and connect to what they think is their bank, and give the phishers their reward. Pharming attacks are becoming so sophisticated that it is almost impossible to tell fake bank websites from the real ones. One expert urged users to stop using the internet to access bank accounts. Police in London have foiled a hi-tech attempt to steal $423m from a Japanese bank. A criminal gang planned to siphon off the money electronically after planting spyware and compromising the bank's computers. Credit Agricole, the number one rated bank in France, has implemented a PKI and smart card-based strong authentication system to beef up access security for its employees and corporate banking customers. The discovery of a serious security flaw caused online bank Cahoot to shut down its website yesterday (Thursday) for 10 hours while the fault was fixed. Users feel safer participating in ecommerce than utilising online banking, a survey has shown. The survey of 2,000 global users, implemented by Entrust, showed 85 percent participate in some form of ecommerce but less than two thirds bank online.