Covid-19, Aarogya Setu related phishing scams see a massive spike in May: Report

Phishing attempts centred around COVID-19 and Aarogya Setu have seen a massive spike over the past couple of weeks according to anti-phishing tech company HumanFirewall.

Phishing attempts related to the app has seen a massive surge from April 28, 2020, with a massive spike beyond May 4, 2020.

“HumanFirewall’s Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Anti-Phishing Lab that works for multiple global as well as Indian customers, solving for Zero-Day Phishing attacks collate these trends as part of its Threat Intelligence shared with customers. Aarogya Setu was seen as an outlier in this threat intelligence from Apr 28, 2020, onwards until the time of this release on May 13, 2020,” the company said in an official statement.