GootKit has expanded the redirection attacks to six major banks in Italy, additionally targeting one of the local digital banking platform providers. The malware redirection technique first surfaced in banking Trojan attacks in 2014, when the Dyre gang launched it against banks in the U.K. It is a sophisticated M.O. used by a number of elite cybergangs like Dridex, TrickBot and GozNym to bypass bank security measures by hijacking the victim to a malicious website they host on their own servers.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/gootkit-malvertising-brings-redirection-attacks-to-italian-banks/