Sunday, October 25, 2009

RHB Bank Slow to response to Plishing Site

In my nature of Work, I would frequently come across many phishing sites. Upon detecting a phishing, I would naturally notify respective banks so that they can take immediate action to take down these phishing sites.

For those who do not understand the term "Phishing", it is merely a fake site set-up by malicious parties, hoping to mislead public into revealing their online details such as User name and password. Upon securing these details, they will login to the bank online system and transfer all your money before you realised it.

Thus, it is common that well established banks are always targeted. Maybank and CIMB bank are commonly attacked. However, I am aware that these banks engage professional Anti-Phishing Services to take down phishing site attaking them.

My past experience with these banks are quite good. Upon alerting them, it take usually 1-2 days before the site is taken down. However, the same cannot be said about RHB bank.

Here is a link to a phishing site (http://fmtnetlog.freewebhostx.com/RHBonline.update.htm) which was alerted to RHB via email (customer_service@rhbbank.com.my) on October 22, 2009.
Neither did I receive any confirmation email that they are acting on this report.

Although, the look and feel of this phishing site is not exactly the same, but it still bears the RHB logo. Thus, there is no reasons why RHB should not act against it.

Let's see how long does it take before RHB takes actions.

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