Protecting Online Customers from Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
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Published January 2008
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In 2006, a new type of sophisticated phishing attack appeared on the Internet targeting a bank’s business customers. These attacks, called “Man-in-the-Middle”, used a fraudulent email to fool the bank’s customers into divulging their credentials on a site that appeared legitimate. What was unusual about these Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks is that they succeeded in spite of the customers using one-time password (OTP) tokens that generated a unique password every minute.
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