A new phishing attack has emerged that targets AIB Online customers, prompting them to go to a spurious bank site that looks for code card and account details.
The initial contact is made via text message and states:
“”Your access to AIB Internet Banking has been suspended because your AIB Code Card has expired. Please go to http://www.aib-updates.com to update your account.”
On going to the web address, an page that looks like an official bank page is presented and asks for an eight digit registration number, a personal access code, the last four digits of home phone number and then asks users to input the data from their code card in its entirety, all 100 numbers.
Ronan Sheridan, group press officer, AIB confirmed that the site where users were directed was not an official AIB site and reiterated warnings to users to be on their guard.
He said that AIB had already put an additional page for online customers at log in, warning them, of phishing attacks and how to avoid them. Sheridan emphasised that at this stage, it is not a case of ignorance among most users where phishing was concerned, but rather that a careless moment might see them succumb to the social engineering aspect of such attacks with unfortunate consequences.
Sheridan said that AIB would never ask for personal or account details by SMS or e-mail unsolicited and that no user should ever enter such details having been prompted by such means. He said that the bank was working continuously with the authorities and others to take down such sites.
For full details on how to avoid such attacks see the page below provided by AIB.
http://www.aib.ie/personal/online-services/internet-banking
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