Banking customers in India may fall victim to this novel phishing attack. How to identify

Scammers are targeting banking customers in India with a new type of phishing attack by impersonating internet banking portals, the country’s cybersecurity agency has warned. Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT-In, issued an advisory Tuesday, saying the scammers are hosting phishing websites on the ngrok platform to collect sensitive information like internet banking credentials, mobile numbers and One Time Password (OTP).

“It has been observed that Indian banking customers are being targeted by a new type of phishing attack using ngrok platform,” the CERT-In advisory said.

“The malicious actors have abused the ngrok platform to host phishing websites impersonating internet banking portals of Indian banks,” it added.