International bank HSBC deluged by viruses

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April 5th, 2005, 07:54 PM
whatthe

International bank HSBC deluged by viruses

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5...=zdfd.newsfeed

Quote:

International bank HSBC is suffering thousands of virus attacks a day, a top executive at the company has revealed.....

...HSBC holds more than a trillion dollars in assets, making it a tempting target for virus writers and hackers. But e-mail identity theft scams are posing a greater threat to the bank's 18.9 million online customers, Jebson said.

I'm assuming these are unsuccessful attacks or they'd be more prominent in the news.
April 5th, 2005, 08:01 PM
Negative

HSBC... reminds me of this: http://antionline.com/showthread.php...highlight=hsbc
April 5th, 2005, 08:17 PM
whatthe

Yikes, I'm sure incidents like that are probably fairly common.
April 6th, 2005, 03:10 AM
spheraice

I wonder if these are true virii attacks or just the remants of infected code red/nimda, etc....
April 6th, 2005, 09:42 AM
SirDice

I believe those figures. I hope these are the ones that got filtered.. :)

We normally block about 40.000 viruses per month with some months peaking to 80.000 depending on what's out there.....