The Government has Issued an Advisory Against Fraud Campaign Regarding COVID-19 Free Tests

In the most recent Covid-19 related cybercrimes in the country, the government has issued an advisory against a fraud campaign regarding COVID-19 free tests. These hackers intimate the government and guarantee innocent peoples for free tests and treatment

The government’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) made a statement that says hackers can be able to steal important personal and financial data from our people.

The malicious hackers are now claiming to have more than 2 Mn individual email addresses and the attack campaign is expected to start on June 21.

The advisory said that it has been reported that malicious hackers are now planning at a large-scale phishing attack campaign while targeting Indian individuals and businesses. The emails are designed to drive the receiver towards fake websites where they are cheated into downloading malicious files or entering personal and financial information.

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CERT-In additional claimed that the spoofing marketing campaign is predicted to be designed to impersonate govt businesses, departments, and business associations who’ve been tasked to manage the payment of the federal government help.

Surendra Singh, Senior Director, and Nation Supervisor at Forcepoint distinguished that according to the company’s three-month researched analysis of the web and email traffic says that, there has been a 358% increment in the number of malicious emails, in the week of March 23.

The Company also claims to have blocked over 500 Mn uninvited mail emails each day, since the middle of March. According to them in April, Gmail was once each day detecting 18 Mn malware and phishing emails, and over 240 Mn unsolicited mail messages that were related with Covid-19.

In the beginning of this month, user data from two Indian startups — Zoomcar and Unacademy — was also leaked onto the dark web.

And this is not the first case of data leaks among Indian startups — there have been many cases of security lack in startups such as Skolaro, Justdial, and many more — but now it comes at a time when India’s cyber-infrastructure is at its maximum risky situation.

According to MeitY, India witnessed more than 3.94 Lakh cases of cybersecurity incidents in 2019.  According to Nasscom’s Data Security Council of India (DSCI) report 2019 they stated that, India witnessed the second-largest number of cyberattacks in the world between 2016 and 2018.

And all this situation comes at a time when digitization of the Indian economy is anticipated to lead a $435 Billions opportunity by 2025.