Heh all,
Today we will see about the Massive Phishing attack. By using the pandemic of COVID 19, the massive actors hacking the data and phishing all the information.
India’s Cyber Security nodal agency has cautioned against a large scale cyber assault against people and businesses, where attackers may use COVID-19 for a bait to steal personal and financial information
The phishing campaign is anticipated to start today (21st June 2020) with hackers using ncov2019@gov.in email identification. The attackers are anticipated to ship malicious emails under the pretext of local authorities in charge of dispensing government financed COVID-19 support initiatives
In order to increase resilience against this danger, IARM advising below instant steps
- IARM advocates individuals and businesses not to start any suspicious emails and mail attachments.
- The main thing to concentrate on in any phishing attack email is the embedded connection. Never ever click on any link in an unsolicited email before checking with IT group
- Advise IT Administrators to block email id ncov2019@gov.in and keep all programs current with the latest security patches and upgrades
- IARM advocating IT/Security team to send Phishing warning material to stop users to create awareness
Conclusion
Its great to share this security best practices for avoiding cyber risks and potential threats which is likely to create disruption in business.
Hope the above summary of the security best practice and recommendations are in detailed.
We hope the information will be useful for each and every organization & individual(s) as well. If you would like to know more about this Alert and fixes, please do get in touch with us at info@iarminfo.com | https://www.iarminfo.com/
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Priya – IARM Information Security
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