Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

> Check this out.
>
>  http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000668

| As the scam was uncovered, Nordea Sweden shut down their whole
| internet bank. Apparently this was done in order to prevent the
| scammers from using the codes to move money around.

Uhm, this is just so wrong.  Maybe they weren't prepared, but this
drastic measure puts more customers at risk because if their regular
banking site fails, they will turn to backup sites that are announced
in those helpful email messages.  Or something like that.

On related topic, my brother once suggested that it might be effective
to combine a DoS attack on the real site with a suitable phishing
attack.  Far more users should be susceptible if their bookmarks stop
working. 8-/
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