Cybercrime and Underground Attack Technologies: Perspectives from the Nigerian Banking Sector.

Banks all over the world are taking advantage and opportunities brought about by e-banking which happened as a result of Internet. As the security level in this sector becomes stronger, the strength and tactics of these fraudsters also increases. Various lucrative attacks have been launched and unfortunately, many have succeeded. This paper addressed different types of cybercrimes in banking sector, factors contributing to cybercrime, tools used by cybercriminals, effects of cybercrime on Nigeria banking, cyber security technology for preventing cybercrimes and duties of individual and organizations on protecting our banks from cybercrime. Keywords: Cybercrime, Banking Sector, Internet, Cyber security.