Chinese Government Owned Bank Hosts Phishing Sites: Spoofed eBay, Citibank

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03-14-2006, 01:15 PM,

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Chinese Government Owned Bank Hosts Phishing Sites: Spoofed eBay, Citibank

Quote: A Chinese bank's server is hosting spoofed sites that phishers are using to dupe customers of American banks and e-tailers, a U.K.-based Internet monitoring company said Sunday.

According to Netcraft, this is the first time one bank's network has been used by criminals to steal information from another bank's customers.

The identity theft attack started Saturday when e-mails were sent to Chase Bank customers that directed them to a site hosted on IP addresses assigned to a Shanghai branch of the China Construction Bank Corp. (CCBC). The spoofed Chase and eBay sites were tucked away in hidden directories, and the CCBC's server's main page displayed a configuration error, said Netcraft...

full article: http://www.informationweek.com/industrie...=181503339&articleID=181503339&sa_type=§ion=industries&subSection=News+By+Vertical+Industry

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