BEDFORD, Mass. — Credit unions grew in popularity among the wrong crowd in May, as phishing and pharming attacks increased 11 percentage points in a month and accounted for 39% of all attacks on U.S. financial institutions, according to RSA Security.
The number of banks and credit unions attacked in May, meanwhile, decreased at the same time as repeat attacks on individual institutions increased, according to reports compiled from the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center.
The majority of attacks were homegrown in May, the online security company says, with 55% originating in the United States. China was second at 13%.
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