February 14, 2020 By Tom Spring
Customers of RBC, HSBC, TD, Meridian, BNC and Chase are targeted in latest attack.
A mobile phishing campaign that targeted customers of more than a dozen North American banks, including Chase, Royal Bank of Canada and TD Bank, managed to hook nearly 4,000 victims. The attacks used an automated SMS tool to blast bogus security text messages to mobile phone users between June and last month.
Mobile security firm Lookout identified the “mobile-first” phishing campaign and said that victims were sent text messages claiming that their bank detected suspicious activity tied to their account. The SMS-based messages each included a link to one of over 200 phishing pages.