The OP Financial Group of Finland reported a cyberattack on its Osuuspankki website on Sunday. The OP Financial Group is one of the major financial organization in Finland, with 180 cooperative banks and 2 million customers. The organization provides commercial, insurance, and retail banking services in Finland.
OP’s customers started receiving phishing messages from a unknown sender. OP has requested its customers not to react to such messages with a link as it is a fraud.
The messages could be in a alarming tone but do not panic. These are message contents that is seen so far in this phishing attack,
All these above messages comes with a link, creating urgency and fear to react.
Teemu Ylhäisi, Chief Information Security Officer of the OP Financial Group and stated that the cause of this technical disruption was investigated, and their service was shifted to a maintenance state for further scrutinization. This below is image is an example of the phishing scam,
In the afternoon, OP Financial Group’s social media team mentioned that the attack has been averted and the services are now stored back to normal. As of now, the complete details of the attack, the procedure and exploitation methods are yet to be identified. The disruption in their services lasted for around 6: 30 mins staring from morning 6:00 am to 12:30 pm on Sunday. The below image is an example of the phishing email,
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A phishing attack is always the first step for threat actors to breach a network, the worse could be still in their plans for OP Financial Group. However, it is good that the banking services were stored shortly and OP Financial Group was able to react to the phishing scam as early as possible.
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