ATLANTA — Credit unions continue to be an apple in the eye of fraudsters, according to SecureWorks, and so do banks.
Attacks on client credit unions rose 62% in the first six months of 2007 compared with the last six months of 2006, and client banks were attacked 81% more during the same time period, according to the Atlanta-based provider of managed security services.
SecureWorks is now blocking 1,799 hackers per month per client credit union and 1,462 on banks, says Allen Wilson, SecureWorks' vice president of research.
SecureWorks blocked 167 million separate hack attacks in the past 30 days, the company says.
Stolen financial data potentially worth millions of dollars has been found sitting on databases, lifted by Trojan attacks launched by hackers from Eastern Europe and increasingly, China, the company says.
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