Hitachi Systems Unveils PhishWall SDK to Prevent Fraud

日立システムズ, Ltd. begins offering “PhishWall Mobile SDK”, which provides the same functionality as “PhishWall Premium”, which detects suspicious sites that imitate the websites of financial institutions and other organisations, when used on a smartphone’s standard browser.

“PhishWall Premium” has been introduced to approximately 200 financial institutions in Japan to increase the security of internet banking transactions and prevent fraudulent transfers and phishing scams using its core technology, “PhishWall Authentication”.

In recent years, the number of victims of fraudulent money transfer scams has increased sharply, and most of these scams are based on phishing. In response to the current situation where security measures tend to be weaker when using smartphones compared to PCs, we developed “PhishWall Mobile SDK”, which brings the functionality of “PhishWall Premium”, which detects suspicious sites, to the smartphone environment.

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This will help prevent fraudulent remittance scams targeting customers who use internet banking from their smartphones, and will help create an environment where internet banking can be used more safely.

The number of internet banking fraudulent transfers is more than four times higher than the previous year, exceeding 4,000 cases, the highest number ever.

With the spread of smartphone applications for managing accounts at financial institutions, there is an urgent need to address the issue of smartphone usage

The spread of financial institutions’ smartphone account management applications and increased mobile access

According to a statement from the National Police Agency, the number of cases of fraudulent internet banking transfers in 2024 was 4,369, with the total amount of damage amounting to 8.69 billion yen, remaining high like the previous year.

Furthermore, criminal methods are becoming more diverse, including fraud using SMS.

Targeted security vulnerabilities

However, mobile users, such as those using smartphones, tend to have a lower level of security awareness than PC users, and criminal groups are taking advantage of this difference in vulnerability countermeasures, leading to an increase in the number of victims of fraudulent remittance scams using various phishing methods. As more and more sophisticated methods using generative AI and other techniques emerge, security measures when using smartphones are urgently needed.

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