ING Bank published today a very important new announcement for all its clients in Romania, and this in the conditions where the bank has recently had a lot of information that affected a lot of people. Today the people from ING Bank are talking about an extremely big problem from the last period, the attacks that hackers make against those who want to find out information about the new Coronavirus, they are directed to malicious websites, unfortunately.
ING Bank however, it has important information that helps clients who want to know how to protect themselves against attacks of this kind, and not risk being victims of money theft attempts. Those from ING Bank started to warn their customers through the Homebank application, where they have a message published since the past few days, and what we see now is an addition to the information that was provided there for everyone.
ING Bank: Very IMPORTANT announcement for Romanian Customers
ING Bank tells us that hackers can try to deceive us through emails, advertisements, or posts on Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, generally directing people to malicious websites. The attack attempts are usually hidden in false ads regarding masks, donations, treatments, false information, and if they do not lead to a malicious website, then they could point to malicious documents, according to those from ING Bank.
"During this period you can become vulnerable when you want to inform yourself. And that can happen because of those trying to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic. We know how important it is to stay informed, but you need to make sure you're safe even on the internet. Here's how you can protect yourself from online scams: https://ing.ro/lp/atentie-la-inselatorii-COVID19.”
ING Bank recommends us to be very careful about the messages we access from the various media in which we receive them, and email attachments should be ignored if they do not come from someone we trust. The coronavirus is just one of the methods by which hackers can try to deceive us, those from ING Bank providing information about the current pandemic, but the reality is that hackers are very ingenious and will try anything to steal our data.
ING Bank he tries to teach his clients how to protect themselves in time before they end up calling to ask for help with various problems, so it's good to be very careful about what they tell us.
