Electronic Banking (e-Banking) Fraud with Phishing Attack Methods

Abstract

Every segment of the society was affected with the developments in technology, though it has empowered financial activities to be carried out quickly in the internet environment. Banking service, is one of the sectors with the most exhaustive use of technology, which have turned their services into online applications in order to respond quickly to the demands of individuals, commercial companies and to get more shares from the market area in an environment of economic competition. Although this innovation offers many advantages but it has also created many damsel for mischievous people. The most popular and well known outbreaks is phishing. Phishing attacks were designed to obtain a target person's key information, such as their password or credit card. For phishing attacks, fake web pages such as e-mail services, official institution web pages, banks, social media sites are organized and victims are expected to fall into this trap. Due to the high success rate of phishing attacks and the simplicity of preparation, attackers often resort to this method to achieve their goals. Even though security measures continue to be taken to battle this crime, the size of the threat continues to increase day by day. In this study, a forensic analysis of a Phishing attack case sample prepared using electronic banking (e-banking) fake website is performed. Detailed information about the fake website prepared from the analysis results was obtained and information about the attacker was obtained. It is evaluated that the approach and results used in the study will contribute to both the fight against this crime and future studies.