Chinese Bank's Server Used In Phishing Attacks On US Banks
Rich Miller posts on the Netcraft weblog that phishing e-mails sent yesterday targeting customers of Chase Bank and eBay were directed to sites hosted on IP addresses assigned to The China Construction Bank (CCB) Shanghai Branch. "This is the first instance we have seen of one bank's infrastructure being used to attack another institution," he says.
The same IP address at CCB Shanghai was used Saturday to host a page spoofing the eBay login screen. The China Construction Bank is a state-owned commercial bank with more than 14,000 branches across China. Last October CCB became the first of China's "Big Four" state-owned banks to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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