Security experts believe that more than 30,000 Australians’ banking details have been compromised online. According to Dvuln, an Australian computer security firm, the exposed data, discovered during the last four years, refers to “multiple major banks”. However, rather than being stolen from banks, the credentials were swiped from customers’ devices by hackers employing “infostealer malware infections”.
Dvuln warned that the data only reflects a “fraction” of the situation. Details from ten thousand users of one bank were discovered on “infostealer logs” where perpetrators can share and sell the information. Another bank had 5000 details found, while another had 4000.
Customers from Australia’s major banks, such as Commonwealth Bank, NAB, ANZ, and Westpac, had their information compromised. Dvuln advises that multi-factor authentication, which is increasingly required to access banking apps or websites, is “not a complete defence.”
“The infections targeted individual user devices and harvested their credentials, rather than compromising banking infrastructure directly,
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