Two Nigerians, Augustine, 40, and his 37-year-old associate Ekene Godwin have been arrested for phishing attacks and breaking into a bank network in India. They were arrested in connection with the phishing attack on a Tamil Nadu cooperative bank. It was also revealed that they had targeted a bank in Gujarat from which they swindled 10 lakh. In Tamil Nadu, they used a cyber tool called Key Logger and broke into the cooperative bank network, whereas in Gujarat they used a tool named Sweet-32, Times Of India reports.
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Two Nigerians, Augustine, 40, and his 37-year-old associate Ekene Godwin have been arrested for phishing attacks and breaking into a bank network in India. In Tamil Nadu, they used a cyber tool called Key Logger and broke into the cooperative bank network, whereas in Gujarat they used a tool named Sweet-32, Times Of India reports.
The cybercrime police plan to take the two into their custody to know more about their modus operandi.Usually, banks do not connect their core system to the internet so as to stay away from spyware and cyber-attacks. In this particular case, Augustine sent phishing mail to the bank officials. Soon after they clicked on the link, the embedded software Key Logger and NG Rok got downloaded and entered into the system without alerting the bank officials on November 18.
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