The attacks on online banking in Germany in 2013 rose by almost a fifth, said the German Federal Bureau of Investigation (BKA) on Monday.

With the growing number of users in the mobile banking, the fraudulent attacks on online banking by using stolen access details have increased significantly in Germany.

The number of phishing attacks on banking transactions rose last year by 19.2 percent to around 4,100 cases, said BKA President Joerg Ziercke to German local media.

"The perpetrator has adjusted to the introduction of the mTAN process, " said Ziercke at the beginning of a forum on cyber security at the German Congress on Crime Prevention in Karlsruhe.

The previous highest number of attacks on online banking was registered in 2011 with 6,422 cases, according to BKA.

BKA said, during the mTAN process, a transaction number is sent as one-time password via SMS to the mobile phone of bank customers.

Targets are the mobile phones, especially the smartphones with outdated versions of the Android operating system.

As German media reported, the nummer of mobile banking users in Germany has doubled since 2012.

Thus, one third of consumers in Germany manage their banking business already with mobile devices such as smartphones or tablet PCs. Endi

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