Moroccan Bank Customers Warned of Mobile App Hacking Scheme

According to the daily Assabah, only customers using mobile applications are targeted by hackers who have repeatedly tried to take control of their account. The modus operandi of this type of hacking is to send a message to customers inviting them to provide personal data, insisting that not doing so would lead the bank to block their account. It is just a trick to retrieve the customer’s login information.

This attack, the extent of which has not yet been determined, was discovered by CIH, which immediately called its customers by message to never provide personal data outside official channels, and to be more vigilant in the face of messages inviting them to update their data via a link.

Many Moroccan companies and even universities have often been targeted by this type of attack despite all precautions. In 2020 for example, computer hacking allowed three young people under the age of 25 to divert more than one million dirhams from bank accounts.