mumbai the increasing use of electronic channels for payments has posed a new security problem for banks indias largest bank the state bank of india sbi has reported an attempt at phishing a fradulent way of acquiring pin numbers and bank passwords using the internetemail by claiming to be a trusted brand to the indian computer emergency response team certin this organisation is associated with the ministry of communication and information technology and acts as a referral agency to the indian ecommunity for incidents related to computer security banking sources indicate that besides sbi three other international banks have informed certin about attempts at phishing however their names are still under wraps sbi senior officials when contacted by toi said they were aware of the attempt and their site not the banks website has been hosted through yahoo there has been no financial loss to the bank we have informed the certin probe is on and we are trying to track down the perpetratorssaid the sbi official he reiterated that this was not an attempt at hacking this is not the first time a bank has reported an attempt at phishing in february icici bank filed a complaint after its customers complained about being asked to validate or confirm their account details through a innocuous email id iciciicicibankcom the cloned website was blocked in two hours the fraudster in his phishing email addressed to the sbi netbanking customer says sbis internet banking is announcing a new security upgrade weve upgraded our new ssl servers to serve our customers for a better and secure banking service against any fraudulent activities due to this recent upgrade you are requested to update your account information by following the reference below