By Andy McCue
Published: Friday 19 January 2007
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Anonymous
Location
London
Occupation
Computer Analyst
Comment
There is something not quite right with this story, for example the social engineering emails were sent out last year asking the bank’s customers to download this anti-spyware application (now known to be a Trojan). Didn’t the bank know that hundreds of it’s customers were downloading an application that they had supposedly asked them to.
If that is the case, and I suspect it is, then I am not surprised that the bank compensated it’s customers so quickly. I guess the bank knew their customers were getting this new “anti-spyware” but failed to look into it until money started to vanish from their customer’s accounts.
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